Ferragosto

Radosław Paczocha
„Ferragosto“
Director: Adam Orzechowski
Music: Marcin Nenko
Set design and costumes: Magdalena Gajewska
Cast: Przemysław Chojęta, Jarosław Dziedzic, Karolina Krawczyńska, Diana Krupa, Michał Lacheta, Karolina Łukaszewicz, Paulina Nadel, Angelika Olszewska, Arkadiusz Wójcik, Magdalena Zając-Zawadzka, Artur Zawadzki
First preview of „Ferragosto” took place on 17 March, 2019, at the 25th Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant

The play tells the story of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński – on outstanding Polish writer, essayist, journalist and political emigre. The title of the play by Radosław Paczocha refers to the August 15th Italian holiday. It is a free day for all Italians. The cities become deserted because its inhabitants leeave looking for some shelter from the heat. Herling-Grudziński described the day as unbearable from a psychological point of view.

„Ferragosto” tells the writer’s story during and after WWII. The past and history become a nightmare, imaginings, returning phantoms. „The play’s characters either come from Herling’s books or they are his relatives, members of family. We have confined the writer to his study and we present his relations with other people within this small area. History and private life intepenetrate each other in the spectacle”, says director Adam Orzechowski. „It is not a puff piece, it is the spectacle about an intelligent, suffering man who does not accept any arrangements, a tough but talented true man”, stresses Orzechowski.

The show is for viewers older than 16 years of age.

„Ferragosto” has been produced under the honorary patronage of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.