"It is dangerous to quit the stage" - discussion at the Festival
A very interesting discussion took place during the Festival, on Sunday, March 25, on our Small Stage. The panelists and the audience discussed whether it was dangerous to quit the stage. This is the main theme of this year’s edition of the Festival.
You can watch the whole discussion here: https://goo.gl/jpp6Dn
“It is dangerous to quit the stage” – this was the subject of the panel discussion. Its participants were:
- Agata Duda-Gracz – theatre director and set designer. Daughter of Jerzy Duda-Gracz, the painter. She is the graduate of the history of art at the The Jagiellonian University and The Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Cracow. She has worked with theatres in Warsaw, Cracow and Łódź.
- Jowita Budnik – television, theatre and film actress. A breakthrough in her professional career was a meeting with Krzysztof and Joanna Krauze. She played in their films „The Saviour Square”,„Papusza” and “Birds Sing in Kigali”.
- Magdalena Łazarkiewicz – director and screenwriter for film and television, a graduate of cultural studies at the University of Wrocław. A member of the Polish Film Academy.
- Adam Orzechowski – director, a graduate of the Direction Department of the Ludwik Solski State Drama School in Cracow. Since July 2006 a general and artistic director of Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk. He directed two winning spectacles in past editions of the International Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant – “Broniewski” and “Tango Łódź”.
- Grzegorz Wiśniewski – a graduate of Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw (now the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw), a director who has collaborated with Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk and the Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź.
The panel discussion was moderated by Łukasz Maciejewski – journalist, film and theatre critic, a lecturer at the Acting Department of the Film School in Łódź. He is the co-writer of the book on life and work of Krystian Lupa – “The End of the World of Values”.
