Photo: Michał Grocholski

Jakub Żulczyk

Institute

The performance was created within the framework of the ACTORS’ INITIATIVES STAGE. Among other things, the Bunkier Stage is a place for the presentation of performances whose initiators are the actresses and actors of our theatre. Following the idea of “theatre of many voices, many views”, the Actors’ Initiatives give our artists the opportunity to present their own point of view on the world together with art and to give individual expression to the works of their choice.

‘Institute’ is a novel that has a long history. I wrote it for the first time 12 years ago, then there was a second edition in which I significantly revised it. When the pandemic started, of course I had this idea that now everyone would be a bit like the characters in ‘The Institute’. In addition, there was a conspiracy narrative quite quickly – plandemics and so on. That made it all the more associated with ‘The Institute’, with the trapped heroes and ‘Them’ being the perpetrators of their confinement.

It was a party flat. People from all over the city used to flock there for bifors and afterys because it was located in a good location and you could meet a lot of cool people there. One time I thought – what would happen if someone locked us in from the outside, if we couldn’t leave? I quickly realised that nothing would happen because, after all, the Institute is on the ground floor. But what if it was on the fourth floor of the building? Or if someone had closed the grille separating the corridor from the stairs? That, in a nutshell, is how I came up with ‘Institute’.

“WE DON'T KNOW WHO “THEY” ARE. WE CAN'T EVEN GUESS. THEY COULD BE OUR NEIGHBOURS. THEY COULD BE OLD ACQUAINTANCES WE ONCE INADVERTENTLY HURT, EX-GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, HUSBANDS, FAMILY....”

Excerpts from the novel “Institute” by Jakub Żulczyk/ (c) Jakub Żulczyk/Syndicate of Authors
– Literary and Screenwriting Agency and Świat Książki publishing house, Warsaw 2016

Premiere

7th january 2022

Scene

Bunkier Stage

Duration

90 MINS (no interval)

Suggested age

+16

Upcoming dates

01.04 / saturday

4.00PM

02.04 / sunday

4.00PM

“(…) has the ability to make you laugh and at times to make you think. It works as a well-tailored genre cinema with solutions which, in my opinion, the theatre could experiment with more often”.

Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl

„(…) 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

FESTIVALS

13th Koszalin Youth Confrontations “m-theatre” (2022)

creators

Direction

Jędrzej Wielecki

Dramaturgy

Natalia Matuszek

Set Design

Karolina Potębska

Lighting Design

Wojciech Gieroń

Assistant Director

Magdalena Maścianica

Assistant Director
Magdalena Maścianica

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

cast

Agnieszka

Karolina Kuklińska

Weronika

Magdalena Maścianica

Iga

Monika Stanek

Sebastian

Radomir Rospondek

Rumun

Kacper Sasin

competitions

The performance took part in the 28th National Competition for the Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Art.

The National Competition for the Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Art aims to reward the most interesting repertoire searches in Polish theatre, supporting native dramaturgy in its stage realizations and to popularizing Polish contemporary drama. The Competition is organised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw.

In the first stage of the Competition, the performances are evaluated by the Artistic Committee consisting of: Paweł Kluszczyński, Katarzyna Lemańska, Andrzej Lis, Jacek Sieradzki (chairman), Katarzyna Tokarska – Stangret, Wiktoria Tabak, Agnieszka Wójtowicz.

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