All About My Mother

Director: Michał Borczuch
Text and dramaturgy: Tomasz Śpiewak
Music: Bartosz Dziadosz
Set design: Dorota Nawrot
Lighting design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Multimedia: Michał Dobrucki
Director's assistant: Agata Klepacz
Stage manager: Jurgita Zaiauskas
Cast: Dominika Biernat, Iwona Budner, Monika Niemczyk, Marta Ojrzyńska, Halina Rasiakówna, Ewelina Żak, Krzysztof Zarzecki
Production: Teatr Łaźnia Nowa

"Everything About My Mother" by Michał Borczuch is one of the most important and moving theatrical productions of the last decade in Polish theatre. While inspired by Pedro Almodóvar's film, the creators quickly depart from adaptation to craft a deeply personal narrative about their own mothers who died of cancer. The director and Krzysztof Zarzecki do not reconstruct biography but attempt to capture memory – fragmented, uncertain, marked by a sense of loss.

Actresses are invited to participate in this process, attempting to embody the mothers of the story's protagonists. Their presence raises questions about the boundaries of empathy and representation: can one play someone else's mother without truly knowing her? How can one tell of the most intimate experience without appropriating it? The production reveals the tension between the private and the theatrical, between document and fiction, between memory and its theatrical reconstruction.

Against the backdrop of this personal story emerges an image of Poland at the end of the 20th century, filtered through family memories. Humour and self-irony do not diminish the power of the narrative but make it even more human and relatable.

Since its premiere in 2016, the production has won Poland's most prestigious theatre awards and earned public acclaim, becoming a symbol of Teatr Łaźnia Nowa's artistic identity. Today it returns as a cult production – still alive, painful, and profoundly relevant.

Duration – 130 minutes