Maria

Maria Kwaśniewska was not a banal person – she was an Olympic medalist, a war hero, a woman who had courage to oppose Hitler, but first of all a woman who rescued hundreds of people from the Holocaust and who all her life tried to prove that someone else’s life is as important as yours. Fragments of her biography form the pretext to ask whether one can lay down one’s life for others and feel fulfilled oneself. Every time when we talk about man poaching on God’s territory we think of criminals taking lives of hundreds of people. But what can we say of a person who saved hundreds of innocent lives? Did she poach on God’s territory or did she fulfill her Christian duty? Radosław Paczocha wrote the play especially for the 28th International Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant.