Witnesses, or Our Little Stabilization

"I'm a bit afraid for the wardrobe, and for the trousers in the wardrobe, and for the porcelain and aesthetics and glasses and ethics, for our last words before sleep and those before yawning, and for the ceiling above us. Our little stabilization might just be a dream"?...

Sixty years have passed since the world premiere of Tadeusz Różewicz's drama. The fears he described more than half a century ago have not returned as a ghost from the past - rather as an ominous shadow looming on the horizon. The fragility of everyday existence is proven by successive absurdities and tragedies, and the primitiveness of war beyond the eastern border raises questions about values we have taken for granted over the past decades. We think about it only sometimes - or not at all. How to live if not here and now?

The Theatre of Fateful Accidents takes Różewicz's drama without the ambition to answer these questions. The creators want to make visible a certain state - partly unconscious, partly paralyzing expectation in which they themselves also exist. The formal point of reference is the aesthetics of Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel, Asteroid City, The French Dispatch): the collision of his style with Różewicz's dense text creates a surreal and dreamlike performance, balancing on the edge of sleep and wakefulness.

Cast:
HE - Michał Orzyłowski
SHE - Maria Pilch
STRANGER - Michał Szafarski

Direction - Natalia Mazurkiewicz
Music - Adam Goik
Set Design - Sabina Kopińska
Lighting Design - Jakub Tomica
Multimedia - Jan Castello Farre
Photography - Małgorzata Fatalska

Based on the drama "Witnesses, or Our Little Stabilization" by Tadeusz Różewicz. Inspired by the style of Wes Anderson. License for performance granted by the Authors' Association ZAIKS.