Wójcicki, Jerzy

Eve's terminal illness becomes an excuse to escape from her otherwise bland life: badly paid work, a cramped flat, an apodictic mother, a crook of a brother and a burnt-out relationship. When the main character finds out that she has little time left, she leaves her husband, has an affair with her boss and her closest friend's husband, travels, wanders around clubs, tries drugs, spends all her savings and borrows money. Unfortunately, what she has always dreamed of does not satisfy her at all, and yet she has sacrificed so much to get it. Instead of indulging in pleasures, she starts to punish herself and wants to die.

Eve burnt all her bridges: she left her family, her friend and her job. After an unexpected recovery, she has to face reality: hurt relatives, pregnancy from the affair, lack of means to live. With nowhere to go, Eve is beginning to attend meetings of a ufologist sect that announces that the end of the world is near and it shall come with the arrival of aliens on Earth. Although she is sceptical about the idea of the approaching apocalypse, she participates in the sect's subsequent initiations.

It’s coming is an excellent psychological drama with brilliant dialogues and well defined characters. The play explores the issue of being aware of our choices: are we able to live our own lives or are we a result of the expectations and failures of others? And finally: will the answer to this question really change anything in our current existence?

Kinga and Robert decide to get a divorce. The spectators act as witnesses to the dispute. The spouses blame each other for a failed relationship, revealing to the audience embarrassing facts of their lives: financial problems, an unsevered umbilical cord with their parents, a tendency to indulge in pornography, controversial upbringing methods, flirting.

In the second act, the conflicted couple go to the lake house to repair their relationship. The situation changes when Robert's friend Ziggy appears on stage unexpectedly. The man has acquired a key to the cottage and regularly invites his lovers there. This time, however, the new girlfriend blows him off and has no intention of coming. Between Kinga, Robert and Ziggy there is a sharp dispute, which will irreversibly affect their further relationship. Ziggy is a single person who enjoys the charms of life. He has no children, makes good money, has a stable professional position, cannot complain about the lack of interest of the fair sex. While Kinga and Robert struggle every day for the quality of their relationship, Ziggy carelessly enters into new romances. In the finale, Kinga and Robert see in their colleague the harbinger of their own failure. The frivolous Ziggy turns out to be a lonely alcoholic who tries in vain to chase his demons away, jumping from one flower to another.

The comedy Marital Problems is a tribute to those who, regardless of the hardships of everyday life, have the courage to get married, which often involves endless sacrifices and emotional crises. What is the Philosopher's Stone that makes people want to be together? What do we really argue about when we argue over an unmade bed? Ziggy's tragicomic figure reveals an old but not easy truth - the fulfillment of a relationship depends largely on our personal attitude towards the world. Whether we are reconciled with each other, whether we accept our weaknesses, or whether we prefer to run away from our own problems, looking for help in a partner's arms.

Life is loading is a play about a new way of experiencing the world, of which the Internet is an inseparable part.  Here we are witnessing a metaphorical colonization of the Wild West, where violence, struggle for territory, gold rush, religious awakenings are not subject to any legislation. Sexaholics, inspired prophets of conspiracy theories, self-proclaimed sheriffs-hackers, prankers, haters, home-grown coaches, trolls - this whole menagerie of human wickedness and beauty wanders through no man's land in search of their five minutes of fame. The play shows the Internet as a wild, barbaric land, which is still awaiting a long process of civilization. It is like discovering the customs of a tribe unknown to science. Youtube channels, social networking sites, sex-chats, memes, private apartments that are online twenty-four hours a day, big corporations that follow the tastes of the customers create a panorama of this new, wonderful world. Here is Donald Trump arguing on twitter with Vladimir Putin about the size of Kim Kardashian's buttocks, which ends with the declaration of World War III by the United States. A desperate woman, caring for her paralyzed husband, looking for consolation on a sex chat. Mark Zuckerberg, who invites a rebellious teenager who wants to close her Facebook account, to improve the world of the Internet with him. Two nerds who don't leave the house at all, having contact with each other only via Skype. A morbidly obese guru and life coach in one, leading a quasi-mass celebrating obesity and fat, who absolves bulimic and anorexic women from the excess weight. How do you find yourself in this beautiful/ cursed excess?

For artists, the omnipotence of the Internet is something obvious, a fact with which they do not intend to argue at all. This is why they are not wrestling with catastrophic visions from Moby's video ("Are you lost in the world like me"), in which the passive and disciplined society, dependent on new technologies, is inevitably heading for anomy. So Więcek and Wójcicki only look closely at the reality saturated with the Internet, which in their text they treat with appropriate distance and irony.