Arkadiusz Wójcik: „Win” in the 32nd „Subjective list of theatre actors” by Jacek Sieradzki

Jacek Sieradzki, a famous Polish theatre critic, every year publishes his „Subjective list of theatre actors”. In the 32rd edition of the list he has mentioned best Polish actresses and actors. Our actor Arkadiusz Wójcik has been put on the list in the “Win” category  for his role in “The Biedermanns”. Together him with on the list are famous actors such as Jan Englert, Adam Ferency, Irena Jun, Agata Kulesza, Maciej Stuhr and Borys Szyc. Our congratulations go to Arek and all  actresses and actors mentioned by Jacek Sieradzki.   

- […] In an excellent play by Anna Wakulnik, directed by Adam Orzechowski, he is reduced to almost motionless face and figure, he reacts with microgestures and single thoughts. He is a Lodz industrialist, a good and human man, respected by his employees. During WW2 he signed the Deutsche Volksliste. When the Russians came in January 1945, he was was given one hour to pack all his things. He killed himself, his wife and his children. Today we would say they commited mass suicide. The spectacle is just this one hour’s decision, as if slowed down, stretched. All around there are events coming out of his head, he is static but they are all reflected in his motionless figure as if cast in stone – Jacek Sieradzki writes.       

- I have already mentioned the actor’s ambitions in one of my lists; in the staging of „Who Wants To Be a Jew?” he broke away of clear-cut comedy frames, his character was boorish but reflective. Nowadays he is to play a historically tragic character of Biedermann one day and then put on a woman’s wig and amuse the audience as an adored and hit maid Nadia the next day. What a profession… - we read in the „List…”. 

„The Biedermanns” closed last season on our Big Stage. – It is a spectacle first of all about courage, dignity and our choices. It tells about horrors of war as well as about violence that should not happen; but the problems it diagnoses are universal and timeless – Ewa Pilawska says. The director invited Anna Wakulik to write the play and Adam Orzechowski to direct it because she wanted to remind the story of the Biedermann family – the industrialists who co-created the history of our city.       

First spectacles this season will be presented on 27, 28 and 29 September. See you then!