Skin After Grandfather

Grand Stage of Stefan Żeromski Theatre, ul. Sienkiewicza 32

Mateusz Pakuła returns to family history once more. This time he takes audiences back to the early 1950s - to the very heart of Stalinism - when his grandfather is imprisoned in a Kielce jail for a youthful transgression. Whoever rescues him will shed light on both the dark past of the city, intertwined with war, the Kielce pogrom, and the Holocaust, and on the future of a new generation.

The performance poses questions without easy answers: how do they weigh on us, these worn-thin skins after our grandfathers - as full of holes as memory itself? Is the history we remember also the history we want to remember? Does it serve as an identity myth?