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Preview of "Dance of the Albatross"

On Saturday, 10 November, on our Small Stage we presented „Dance of the Albaross” („La danse de l’albatros”) by Gèrald Sibleyras directed by Maciej Sławiński. The comedy by the French playwright pictures modern Western society and diagnoses its anxieties and frustrations. Why, at all costs, do we have to be young? Why cannot we accept the passing of time?       

Gèrald Sibleyras is one of the most interesting contemporary French playwrights. In a perfect way he diagnoses our anxieties, our frustrations and vices and describes them with a great sense of humour and understanding. In his plays he brilliantly describes an intelligent man in a world of political correctness, fashion and trivial ways of spending life. In „Dance of the Albatross” he presents a pair of  fifty-year-olds who confront the midlife crisis.

- The play is about our fear of getting old. We cannot enjoy our maturity. It also reveals the emptiness in human relations – says Ewa Pilawska, the Powszechny Theatre director.

The play was directed by Maciej Sławiński, who has produced many spectacles in our theatre. - „Dance of the Albatross” is a clever, ironic, sometimes bitter comedy. It is about our disappointment with beautoiful ideas, hopes for something better, about people who are not happy with their dreams even when they are fulfilled – says Maciej Sławiński.

„Dance of the Albatross” premiered in 2006 in Paris and was a big success. It won two nominations for the Moliere Awards. Gèrald Sibleyras, who writes dramas, scripts and radio plays, is a well-known French playwright popular with critics and audiences. For his 2003 play „Popplar Wind” („Le vent des peupliers”)he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006. His first play produced in Poland was „Inscription” („L'inscription”) which we presented in our theatre in 2006 (it was directed by Waldemar Śmigasiewicz).

Thank you for being with us! We invite you to the spectacles in November and December!

„Dance of the Albatross” („La danse de l’albatros”)
by Gérald Sibleyras
Translated by: Jolanta Domagalska
Directed by: Marcin Sławiński
Set design: Wojciech Stefaniak
Cast: Karolina Krawczyńska, Barbara Lauks, Mirosław Jękot, Adam Marjański


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