The mental health of young people in Poland has deteriorated significantly in recent years. The semicolon used in the play’s title is a worldwide sign for the fight against depression. It is meant to split a sentence at the point where it could end – which is why it has become a symbol of people who were close to committing suicide and yet did not.

What goes on in the mind of someone who wants to commit suicide? How does the brain then work, how do the neurons react? Is the image they produce true or distorted? Where does projection end and reality begin? What do we do when it is our brain itself that begins to conspire against us? When is the moment to put a semicolon?

The problems faced by young people today are reflected in the times in which ‘Kordian’ was written. Is it possible to humanise the figures of the Romantic bards by bringing to the surface hidden information from their correspondence? Can we find in their characters reflections of ourselves, their desires and fears? Are we able to bring them out of their eternal limbo? And what do the young people of Opole really want to say in theatre?