Interview with Weronika Kozakowska and Paweł Gasztold-Wierzbicki
director of the play teplitsa
Theater Academy in Warsaw. Premiere November 6, 2021
Veronika Kazakovskaya: after the first reading, I was overcome with hope, and I felt that this is really fantastic material for the diploma, because it is based on the team, on the group that we were supposed to build here. It was a fantastic challenge for all of our top ten…
Interview with Jakub Skrzywanek
director of the play immoral fairy tales
General Theater in Warsaw. Premiere on September 25, 2021
We are constantly afraid to admit that sexuality is something really common, very close to us. The first sketch, which you mentioned, begins with a few minutes of insistent approach to the body, or rather, to the ass of the actress, who is riding a bicycle. This is one of the examples of a typically patriarchal cinematic view, and you can say that it is somehow unpleasant. That is why we have abandoned such optics, and formally we are discussing this thanks to the study on Polanski…
Interview with Maciej Dybowski
the actor of the play and the planets go crazy
Modern theater in Warsaw. Premiere on August 20, 2021
The performance was based on the texts of Kora, but the texts were worked out in a literary and arranged way. Like an actor, you need to pass each text through yourself. This isn't a one-to-one cora song. They have a unique drama, precise joint choreography. Anna was our main choreographer. The main thing is that it was our joint project, in which we contributed our own ideas. Anya had outlines, drawings, and ideas in her head. Such pictures, but we also offered a lot from each other, so it looks like this, and not otherwise. We had very long discussions ... then came the musical layer composed by Mateusz Dembski. Somewhere on the canvas of the original chords, but stylistically it has nothing to do with rock. The accompanying ensemble consists of a piano, double bass and harp. Who would have thought a harp would fit Maanam? No, neither do we. It was a suggestion that makes me feel hot when I listen to the harp in Maanam.
Interview with Jakub Gąsowski
co-director of the Sinatra 100+ show and its actor
Theater Academy in Warsaw. Premiere June 29, 2021
"My love for Frank Sinatra and his music was the main driving force behind the performance we just made: SINATRA 100+. This is my long-standing passion for this music, for swing music, for jazz music, for big band music, where there are trumpets, trombones, saxophones, a whole rhythm section. All of this has always resonated in my head. I've always wanted to play with a big band, and for a few years now, when I got into drama school and got on stage at the Collegium Nobilium, I thought, Yeah, this is where I'd like to put on a show about Frank Sinatra someday”"