Winners of the Audience Plebiscite of the 30th International Festival of Plays Pleasant And Unpleasant

- Yesterday we finished voting in the Audience Plebiscite for spectacles in the competition part of the 30 International Festival of Plays Pleasant And Unpleasant. Here are the results of the voting of our viewers – Ewa Pilawska, artistic director of the festival, says. – Your verdict confirms that the power of theatre lies in its diversity. This direction is closest for me, I do care to present full spectre of the theatre, it is not genre or aesthetics but quality is the thing that matters first of all. And in this way I have built programme of this year’s edition – Ewa Pilawska adds. 

- This jubilee edition went on the way we had planned it to go. There was a protective theatre daemon watching over us. I would like to thank all the creators for their spectacles and their extraordinary professionalism. I want to thank our magnificent audience that have been with us for all those 30 years co-creating the festival. I wish all of us as many important theatre meetings as possible – Ewa Pilawska says. 

The audience of the 30th International Festival of Plays Pleasant And Unpleasant cast their votes (traditionally and on the internet) and chose the winners of the plebiscite:

The Best Spectacle ex aequo
–  „Mothers. A Song for Wartime”,
conception, script and direction by Marta Górnicka,
produced by The Chorus of Women Foundation (Warsaw) and The Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin) with co-production of Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw; Festival d’Avignon; Maillon Théâtre De Strasbourg – Scène européenne; Spring Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), Tangente St. Pölten – Festival Für Gegenwartskultur (Austria) 

and

„How I Didn’t Kill My Father And How Much I Regret It”,
adapted and directed by Mateusz Pakuła,
co-production of Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Cracow and The Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce

The Best Actress
– Małgorzata Zawadzka
for the role of Mary Tyrone
in Eugene O’Neill’s „Once Upon a Long Day”,
script and direction by Luk Perceval,
produced by The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary (Old) Theatre in Cracow

The Best Actor
– Roman Gancarczyk
for the role of James Tyrone
in Eugene O’Neill’s „Once Upon a Long Day”,
script and direction by Luk Perceval,
produced by The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary (Old) Theatre in Cracow

The following spectacles took part in the competition part of the 30th International Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant:

• „Mothers. A Song for Wartime”, conception, script and direction by Marta Górnicka, produced by The Chorus of Women Foundation (Warsaw) and The Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin) with co-production of Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw; Festival d’Avignon; Maillon Théâtre De Strasbourg – Scène européenne; Spring Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), Tangente St. Pölten – Festival Für Gegenwartskultur (Austria)
• „Little Fifteen – Pomeranian Legends”, written and directed by Tomasz Man, produced by The Witkacy Nowy Theatre in Słupsk
• „How I Didn’t Kill My Father And How Much I Regret It”, adapted and directed by Mateusz Pakuła, co-production of Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Cracow and The Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce
• „The Last Days of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu” by Julia Holewińska, directed by Wojciech Faruga, produced  by Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz
• „Once Upon a Long Day” by Eugene O’Neill, script and direction by Luk Perceval, produced by The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary (Old) Theatre in Cracow
• „The Melodrama”, directed by Anna Smolar, produced by The Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw
• „Republic (Der Staat)” by Plato, directed by Jan Klata, co-produced by The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Cracow and  Nationaltheater Mannheim

Spectacles: „Elizabeth Costello” directed by Krzysztof  Warlikowski, „Happy Days” (Master Presentation of Maja Komorowska) and „Fredro. The Jubilee Year” directed by Jan Englert were Master Presentations and did not take part in the Audience Plebiscite.

Photos:

„Mothers. A Song for Wartime” – Maciej Zakrzewski
„How I Didn’t Kill My Father And How Much I Regret It” – Maciej Zakrzewski
Małgorzata Zawadzka in „Once Upon a Long Day” – Magda Hueckel
Roman Gancarczyk in „Once Upon a Long Day” – Maciej Zakrzewski