Butterflies Are Free

"Butterflies Are Free" - butterflies are fascinating, flying and fleeting, beautiful, delicate - just like our feelings and emotions. Our production features love, disappointment, eroticism, despair and comedy. A bit like commedia dell'arte - the young are delicate and touching, while the older characters are grotesque and very funny. Can an overbearing mother end her son's romance with a young neighbour? Is a modern theatre director a more attractive partner for a young actress than a delicate young man? How should a 30-year-old divorcée look? Just as in the play - on stage we have a collision of youthful energy - in the role of "Don" Chris Cugowski, in the role of "Jill" Zuzanna Mikołajczyk and Wiktoria Koprowska - with the mastery of mature age - in the role of "Florentyna" Agnieszka Pilaszewska and Lesław Żurek as "Rafał". Although our story takes place in an attic of a tenement house in Warsaw's Praga district, Columbia Pictures made a film adaptation of this play. In the film titled "Butterflies Are Free", the role of "Jill" was played by Goldie Hawn - an actress with exceptional comic timing.

Author: Leonard Gershe
Translation: Małgorzata Semil
Direction: Jerzy Gudejko
Set Design: Wojciech Stefaniak
Costumes: Grażyna Gudejko and Olga Szynkarczuk
Music: Jan Regulski

Cast:
Chris Cugowski ("Bridgerton", "The Forester's Lodge", "Your Face Sounds Familiar") as "Don",
Zuzanna Mikołajczyk ("Murderesses", "Rojst", "In Sickness and in Health") alternating with Wiktoria Koprowska ("Damn Mickiewicz", "First Love") as "Jill",
Agnieszka Pilaszewska ("Honeymoon Years", "In Sickness and in Health", "Pure Sweetness", "The Boss's Ear") as "Florentyna Piekarska",
Lesław Żurek ("Little Moscow", "Lesser Evil", "Girlfriends", "Colors of Happiness", "Londoners", "Between the Sheets") alternating with Michał Meyer ("Your Face Sounds Familiar", "Time of Honor", "Wałęsa. Man of Hope", "Naked and Happy", "Dancing with the Stars") as "Rafał Augustyn"

Production: TEATR GUDEJKO