„I Wanted To Be” the best spectacle of the 16th Comedy Carnival in Katowice!

„I Wanted To Be”, directed by Michał Siegoczyński, won the 16th edition of Comedy Carnival in Katowice. The music comedy produced by Powszechny Theatre – Polish Comedy Centre in Łódź – received the highest number of the viewers’ votes and won at the Big Stage of The Stanisław Wyspiański Śląski Theatre.

Congratulations from Powszechny Theatre go to The Kamil Maćkowiak Theatre which,  at the same festival, won at the Small Stage of Korez Theatre. This was really the Łódź final in Katowice!    

The Katowice Award is another unique distinction for „I Wanted To Be” given by the viewers – it was voted the Best Spectacle of 2021 in Plastry Kultury Plebiscite, and Mariusz Ostrowski, for his role of Krzysztof Krawczyk, was voted the Best Actor of the 27th edition of International Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (both awards were given by the spectacle’s viewers).    

„I Wanted To Be” is not a puff piece for Krzysztof Krawczyk. It shows the artist’s life with all its ups and downs, tells about the star, but first of all about the man. „We are inspired by Krzysztof Krawczyk to touch a paradox of being a star. What I am most interested in is the split between a stage image and the so-called normal life – Michał Siegoczyński, the author and the director says. 

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„I Wanted To Be”

Script and direction: Michał Siegoczyński
Stage design and costumes: Katarzyna Sankowska
Stage designer’s assistant: Anna Drobczyk
Music: Piotr Mania
Choreography: Alisa Makarenko
Multimedia presentation: Natalia Mentkowska
Cameras: Ewa Borowska/Paula Wilczyńska
Guitar recordings: Przemysław Hanaj
Dramaturgy consultant: Patryk Warchoł
Vocal training: Izabela Puk
Cast: Mariusz Ostrowski, Karolina Kleniewska/Aleksandra Bogulewska, Diana Krupa/Marta Jarczewska, Karolina Łukaszewicz, Paulina Nadel, Ewa Sonnenburg, Filip Jacak, Jakub Kotyński, Artur Majewski

Photographs: Maciej Zakrzewski (the spectacle), Jeremi Astaszow (the audience)