NUNS LEAVE IN SILENCE

The performance is a realisation of the winning project selected in the 1st edition of the Modelatornia Theatre Project Competition.

The stories of the heroines of the reportage “Nuns leave in silence” by Marta Abramowicz are the starting point of the performance. They become a bridge between the observation of the actresses’ performance and the personal attitude of the actresses to the characters they interpet. The overriding theme of the play is the calling, understood both in the context of the sacred and the profane, through service to God to the mission and the ethos of the actor.

The performance was realised as part of the first edition of the Modelatornia competition. Both the theme and the form, based primarly on an actresses’ search, amazed the Competition jury, who unanimously decided to distinguish the project of Daria Kopiec and Martyna Lechman.

Performance based on Marta Abramowicz’s book “Zakonnice odchodzą po cichu” (Nuns Leave in Silence) and improvisations by actors.

„ NIE WIEM KIM SĄ „ONI”. NIE POTRAFIMY NAWET SIĘ DOMYŚLIĆ. MOGĄ BYĆ NASZYMI SĄSIADAMI. MOGĄ BYĆ DAWNYMI ZNAJOMYMI, KTÓRYCH KIEDYŚ NIECHCĄCY SKRZYWDZILIŚMY, BYŁYMI DZIEWCZYNAMI, CHŁOPAKAMI, MĘŻAMI, RODZINĄ ..."

Fragmenty powieści „Instytut” Jakuba Żulczyka/ (c) Jakub Żulczyk/Syndykat Autorów
– Agencja Literacka i Scenariuszowa oraz wydawnictwo Świat Książki, Warszawa 2016

Premiere

10th november 2017

Scene

Modelatornia

Duration

75 MINS (no interval)

Age group

Adults

Kiedy gramy?

09.09. / poniedziałek

19.00

09.09. / poniedziałek

19.00

09.09. / poniedziałek

19.00

„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.

Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl

Awards and festivals

Golden Mask for the best performance, best music and best script in 2017 in the Opole Voivodeship

Acting Award for Karolina Kuklińska at the 1st Freedom Stage Festival in Słupsk (2018)

Main Award – the Konrad Laurel, the Audience Award and the Journalists’ Award at the 19th National Festival of Directing Art “Interpretations” in Katowice

Main Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 9th “m-theatre” Koszalin Young Confrontations

Distinction of the “Theatre” magazine for the Best Female Role, Best Music and Best Debut

38th Warsaw Theatre Meetings