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THE FACILITY

Summary: 

A grotesque fable about a penitentiary that turns out to be a haven of freedom. While visiting his brother in jail, the protagonist gradually discovers that its inmates are incarcerated there of their own free will. The facility's rules and resocialisation activities give their lives a meaning and order that had been beyond their reach on the outside. Isolation from the hardships of everyday life, with all its economic and political aspects, allows them to enjoy inner peace and freedom. But is this Utopian world of mandatory freedom not merely another form of social oppression? The play won Third Prize in the ZAiKS Authors' Association and WFDiF playwriting competition for TEATROTEKA.

 

Cast: 

Bartłomiej Firlet (Narrator)

Aldona Jankowska (Mother)

Philippe Tłokiński (Brother)

Antoni Ostrouch (Governor)

Adam Biedrzycki (Guard)

Włodzimierz Press (Old man 1)

Krzysztof Strużycki (Old man 2)

Michał Breitenwald (Old man 3)

Andrzej Glazer (Librarian)

Krzysztof Krupiński (Animator)

Tomira Kowalik (Neighbor)

Elżbieta Romanowska (Nurse)

 

AUTHOR: Marta Guśniowska,

DIRECTOR: Piotr Kurzawa,

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Łukasz Gutt P.S.C.,

SET DESIGN: Ewa Gdowiok,

COSTUMES: Zofia Ufnalewska,

EDITING: Jakub Motylewski,

MUSIC: Paweł Szamburski,

SOUND: Aleksandra Pniak, Michał Robaczewski, Tomasz Wieczorek,

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Paweł Mantorski,

BOARD COUNCIL: Zenon Butkiewicz, Krzysztof Domagalik, Maciej Wojtyszko,  

PRODUCER: Włodzimierz Niderhaus.

 

RUNNING TIME: 53'42" / YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2017

Marta Guśniowska AUTHOR

(born in 1979) Playwright, stage director. Graduate of Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She worked at the Poznań Animation Theatre and the Children's Art Center in Poznań. From 2007, she has been working with the Białystok Puppet Theatre as a playwright and literary director. Author of several dozen theatre plays for children, produced in major puppet theatres in Poland, and in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. Many- time winner of the Plays for Children and Youth Competition organized by the Children's Art Center in Poznań. Has won several awards in the Competition for the Performance of Polish Contemporary Plays.

 

Piotr Kurzawa DIRECTOR

(born in 1990) Stage director. Graduate of the Directing Department of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. His diploma piece, G.E. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, was produced at the Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Toruń (2018). He also graduated from the Vocal and Acting Department of the Musical Studium at the Capitol Musical Theatre in Wrocław. His play The tragedy of…, based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, was presented at the SZEM Festival (Hungary, 2015) and Festival of the Two Worlds (Spoleto, Italy, 2016).