The Węglin District Community Cultural Centre invites you to Mateusz Nowak’s monodrama, Żertwa (Burnt Offering), based on Zapluty karzeł reakcji (The Bespittled Dwarf of Reaction) by Piotr Woźniak with excerpts from Pan Tadeusz (Sir Thaddeus) and Śniła się zima (I Dreamed about a Winter) by Adam Mickiewicz. The event is part of Project T1A: History.
The performance evokes the time of Stalinist prisons in Poland. The protagonist of the story introduces today's recipients of history into a restricted-access world. This world has already become part of the national myth. How can we talk about people of that time whose fate should serve as a warning to us? By writing historical hagiographies? The Polish word “żertwa” means a burnt offering.
- Performed by: Mateusz Nowak
- Written by: Stanisław Miedziewski and Mateusz Nowak
- Directed by: Stanisław Miedziewski
- Make-Up: Agnieszka Adamczewska
- Audio Recordings: Konrad Biel
- Costume Designer: Magdalena Franczak
- Lighting Director: Marcin 'Kabat' Kowalczuk
- Sound Engineer: Łukasz Szulc
- Introduction: Jarosław Cymerman, PhD
Free admission.
Pre-booking is required.
Contact: info@ddkweglin.pl
Project T1A: HISTORY is a series of stage performances in the form of one-actor theatre, devoted to the history of the twentieth century. Josef Stalin and Stalinist repressions, Margaret Thatcher, the Holocaust and Maria Curie Sklodowska are the characters and themes we want to introduce to the audience in Lublin through the art of monodrama – a full-fledged theatrical form which – due to its more intimate character – encourages a more profound experience of the content and story.
The project is co-financed from the funds of the National Centre for Culture Poland under the 2018 Culture Interventions Programme.