Ja zawsze! (Me, Always!) is a three-act stage comedy-drama by Tadeusz Kuta, set in a space suspended between theater and a dream, between rehearsal and life, between absurdity and last chance. The play tells the story of a rehearsal – theatrical and existential – in which forgotten actors try to return to a world that has already forgotten them. It is the story of Betty Gallan and Georg Labrynsky – a couple united by the stage and divided by everything else – pushed back onto the stage by the desperation of the director and the maniacal faith of the producer. Nothing is ready. Everything is falling apart. The rehearsals resemble a ritual of madness rather than a path to the premiere. The dialogues crack with tension, jumping between farce and lyricism, grotesque and reality. Sometimes they burst out laughing, only to strike a tone of deep regret a moment later. She – famous for her cooking, he – infamous for forgetting his lines, try to perform a play about two suicidal people standing on the edge of a roof. At the same time, they themselves are balancing on the precipice of their own past. With each scene, the boundaries blur – between character and actor, between fiction and confession, between rehearsal and reckoning. It is not only a story about preparations for a performance, but theater about theater, love about aging, death about ridiculousness. At the end, there is a song, because theater must have a finale, and there is singing, because life goes on despite everything, and there is irony, because otherwise it would be impossible to bear.
Me, Always! is the perfect text for small stages and great actors, for directors searching in the dark and for audiences who want to laugh – even through tears. It is a story about how there is nothing more serious than ridiculousness and nothing more ridiculous than life. And that even if there are only three months left, you can still say: “Me, always.”