Laundry
Laundry is a three-part tragicomedy by Tadeusz Kuta, set somewhere between a dream and everyday life, between the bed and the door, between the refrigerator and the telephone. In this seemingly ordinary space, where He and She have been lying for months in bedding that can no longer be washed—not only because the washing machine is leaking—a story unfolds about the powerlessness, fear, and absurdity of contemporary existence. About dirt that multiplies out of nowhere. About a relationship that lasts more out of habit than necessity. And about how easily life turns into a script from which it is impossible to write oneself out.
It is a story about a couple who seem to be stuck in stagnation, but in reality are fighting the most intense battle – for meaning, for attention, for who will get up to answer the door. Their everyday dialogues jump between witty verbal comedy and poetic lamentation, between intellectual fencing and the simple: “Ass. Shit.” It is theater of the absurd lined with the truest drama. On top of that, there is the Stranger – a character straight out of Kafka's lost and found office – who begins to regularly deliver them “dirty laundry,” materializing metaphors that are better kept in the mind.
With each scene, the tension grows, the boundaries blur, and the dreamlike rituals become more and more real. In the second part, the characters get out of bed, but only to immerse themselves in the grotesque world of contemporary diets, medications, and “spiritual renewal.” The outside world turns out to be even more absurd than the one enclosed within four walls. The third part returns to the starting point, but now everything is clear. There is no escape, no washing away. Because the laundry room is not a place. It is a state of mind.