Small Duties is a shocking and daring poem about violence against women and social expectations of victims. It is a story divided into three parts: Revue, History, and Investigation. Its main characters are Natascha Kampusch and Elizabeth Fritzl, the so-called basement girls, who were imprisoned and tortured for years. After their release, they became a kind of macabre “celebrities.” They were judged, re-exploited by the media and pop culture, and subjected to social pressure.
Journalist Tom visits Professor Witz, a legendary researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He wants to talk about a project initiated by the professor in 2049 in the Łódź area, which has gotten somewhat out of control.
Tadeusz Kuta's Wigilia (Christmas Eve) is a play that begins as a comedy of manners but ends with a question that no one wants to ask: is the empty seat at the table really for a stranger, or just for our alibi? Words bounce off the walls of a modern apartment like reflected text messages. She and He — a couple from the IKEA catalog, with discounted souls. He thinks life is Excel. She still remembers Christmas carols that were not sung for likes. A Guest enters — uninvited, uncomfortable, with a suitcase like something out of a dream. Something about him doesn't fit.
Happiness can be perverse – it comes when no one invites it, and sometimes it looks completely different than we expected. Tadeusz Kuta's Szczęściarze (The Lucky Ones) is a classic, intelligent situation comedy in which the everyday life of Bol and Niuńcia, an average couple from a housing estate, is turned upside down by a lottery win and a series of unexpected guests. Among those who drop in are an eccentric street artist, a priest with a sense of humor, a bishop with an ego, and a businessman with... imagination.
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.
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.
Two people are stuck in an elevator. She is well-groomed, pragmatic, and connected to the institution of “the system.” He is unemployed, homeless, seemingly simple-minded, yet surprisingly eloquent. Their encounter, initially accidental, turns into a series of confrontations, verbal scuffles, confessions, provocations, and attempts to cross boundaries. Not only physical boundaries, but also social, mental, and emotional ones. The elevator—a confined space—becomes a microcosm in which a tense, comical, and at the same time bitter game of survival unfolds.
When The Bedbug’s Dream premiered in 2001 under Kazimierz Dejmek’s direction, Słobodzianek’s play read as a biting satire of (p
Wiki, who lives on North Street, is very lonely. She has no siblings, her parents are perpetually busy, and her peers consider her a freak. Fortunately, Wiki is a girl endowed with imagination and a love of literature. So, she escapes into her world and has numerous adventures, one of which gets out of hand, and this story is about it. Before dinner, Dad orders Wiki to wash her hands and clean her room. The girl obeys the order, but to her surprise and dad's annoyance the room turns out to be even messier than before dinner. How is this possible?
This black comedy, which is, as usual in Anna Burzyńska’s works, filled with numerous unexpected turns of events, takes place in a Funeral Home. Ada, who works there, is a mortuary cosmetologist, but she also does special commissions… On this particular day, she is to work on a body of a man whom “God did not bless with good looks.” When Ada is powdering his nose, the man suddenly comes back to life. The woman faints. After a round of genuinely witty banter, it turns out that the man doesn’t remember who he is nor how or why he “died”.
