Ewa Pilawska with the first award of Community Idol 2023: Powszechny Theatre „the institution open for the blind”.
On Friday, 13 October, we received two unique distinctions given by the community of the blind and partially sighted persons.
- Director Ewa Pilawska was awarded for taking the first place in the 2023 edition of Community Idol competition;
- Powszechny Theatre also took the first place as „the institution open for the blind”.
We are very glad and thank the organizers for the distinctions!
This is another form of appreciation for our project „The Reading theatre for the blind and partially sighted persons” which has been carried out for almost 18 years by Ewa Pilawska on a voluntary basis (it started in 2005 with the co-operation of Teresa Wrzesińska, the then president of the Łódź District of Polish Blind Union).
There have been 71 spectacles presented so far. Each of them is a first presentation – a staging of a new text which was not produced by Powszechny Theatre before. Every time visually impaired persons take part in a spectacle produced specially for them. Special focus is put on the sound details, all stage directions are read out loud by a person who looks after the script and describes the setting of the play.
Before the spectacles, the audience are given programmes in braille. „Pochodnia” magazine, the Polish Blind Union’s monthly emphasizes that the project „The Reading theatre for the blind and partially sighted persons” is the only one of that kind in Poland.
