Bim-Bom-Boom! Workaholic romantic comedy

„Bim-Bom-Boom! Workaholic romantic comedy” is a spectacle about love in the era of algorithms, a story of a couple who met thanks to a „cybermatchmaker” – an app dedicated to joining people who do not have time for dating… 

After having reached the overtime limit in his corporation Darek, an IT specialist, goes into work rehab in the Łódź Burnout Clinic where CEOs, officials, actors and teachers learn how not to work, be at loose end and fool around and attend sessions lectured by sister Rezyliencja and an excentric professor Klindża – a specialist in leaves and burnout therapist. When he goes off screens and deadlines Darek develops anxiety disorders and they become deeper when his partner Honia informs him she is pregnant and he gets to know that his female boss Laura wants to get him out of the clinic to make him finish the software of Empaton – a dating app. David refuses because he wants to devote his time to his family but when Empaton kidnaps Honia he has to return to work to hack into the AI app which wants to kill him…          

Students theatre Bim Bom becomes a rescue from the love commercialization and the relationship breakdown – the theatre returns to the stage on the occasion of six-hundredth anniversary of Łódź and presents a programme full of surreal plot twists, stage machinery and ideas that corpo people have never dreamt of.

Will the IT specialist succeed in saving his girlfriend and defeating AI? Can love be a cure for overwork? Or does true feeling require too much work and there is no place for it in our busy world? We invite all workers of all trades to join a surreal evening in the Łódź Burnout Clinic to have an intensive bimbotherapy session!        

The spectacle takes part in the 30th edition of All-Poland Competition for Staging a Modern Polish Play. The aim of the competition is to award the most interesting repertoire search in the Polish theatre, to support Polish dramaturgy and its staging as well as to popularize modern Polish drama. The competition is organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw.

During the first stage of the competition the spectacles are evaluated by the Artistic Committee consisting of: Jacek Sieradzki (chairman), Dominik Gac, Piotr Hildt, Anna Jazgarska, Szymon Kazimierczak, Andrzej Lis, Wanda Świątkowska.