WHO'S AFRAID OF SYBILLA THOMPSON?

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WARSAW PREMIERE - 14.10.2017, 19:00, Dom Kultury KADR, Warsaw
within the project CÓRY WARSZAWSKIE
Sybilla is 20 years old and her grandchildren are polyamorous. Her passionate lover is 80, but her husband shoots him to make her miserable. Sybilla is 89, she practices rhythmic gymnastics; her admirers are uncouth, but luckily they’re all European. Sybilla is 75, she can barely get up from her chair. Her husband’s ghost dangles in the closet right beside her jumper. Her son is four.

Maria knows Marshal Józef Piłsudski; she’s 33 or perhaps she’s even be dead by now. She knows exactly what’s going to happen in half a century.

TERAZ POLIŻ has staged what is regarded as a canonical play in Polish culture, listed alongside Witold Gombrowicz’s “Marriage”, Stanisław Wyspiański’s “Wedding” and Adam Mickiewicz’s “Forefathers’ Eve”. “Who’s Afraid of Sybilla Thomspon” is based on a piece by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, where the playwright weaves a futuristic narrative challenging beliefs on the human condition in the modern era. She toys with visions of what comes after her, and what we are yet to face.
Best wishes on the 250th jubilee of public theatre in Poland!
Cast: Dorota Glac, Marta Jalowska, Emanuela Osowska, Kamila Worobiej
Directed by Ula Kijak
Directing cooperation on Warsaw premiere by Julia Szmyt
Stage and costume design by Dominika Skaza
Set and costume adaptation for Warsaw premiere by Diana Marszałek
Music and vocal training by Maria Rumińska
​Video by Emanuela Osowska
Poster design by Dorota Glac
Poster illustration by Ilona Błaut
The production is based on the play “Sybilla Thompson’s Lover” penned by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska.
Duration - 2h
PREMIERE - 26.06.2015, Malta Festival, Zamek Culture Center in Poznań
The play’s premiere was accompanied by lectures delivered by researchers from HyPaTia. The History of Polish Theatre. A Feminist Research Project.
CO-PRODUCED AS PART OF THE
​“RESIDENTS-IN-RESIDENCE” PROGRAMMME
CONTENT COOPERATION
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SPECIAL THANKS TO:​​

PALMIARNIA POZNAŃSKA
The production took part in the Living Classics Competition for the Staging of Old Works of Polish Literature, held to mark 250 years of public theatre in Poland. The contest was jointly organised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute.
photo: Tomasz Drzewiecki
14.05.2015 - Agata Chałupnik, Ph.D.
“Female scientists, researchers, politicians, abortionists. Protagonists of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska: torn between professional and personal life.”

10.06.2015 - Jagoda Hernik Spalińska, Ph.D.
“Two canons: the female and the universal. The art of women and the canon. Is women’s art inherently feminist? Can feminist art be a part of the so-called universal canon of culture/art?”

24.06.2015 - Professor Krystyna Duniec
“Female directors and playwrights. Women’s art and feminist art in Polish theatre. Is there a feminist-oriented theatre in Poland?”