Deprawator
Grażyna Barszczewska, Anna Cieślak, Kazimiera Utrata, Magdalena Zawadzka, Paweł Krucz, Wojciech Malajkat, Andrzej Seweryn
In May 1964, the famed Polish modernist writer Witold Gombrowicz met Rita Labrosse—his future wife. In the autumn they moved in together in France, in Vence near Nice in the Villa Alexandrine. During the summer holidays of 1967, Czesław Miłosz and his wife stayed in Vence. They lived one and a half kilometres from Gombrowicz, whom Miłosz visited daily at the time.
Zbigniew Herbert, who was hosting Miłosz at the time, advised him against these visits. He viewed the intimacy and regular meetings between the writers with disapproval. As a member of the staunchly right-wing younger generation, he resented the old masters' irreverent attitude to Polishness. I am very concerned about your spiritual contact with Gombrowicz, although such things have happened, vide Conrad's strange friendship with Gide. Beware please, for he is a depraver [sic], he wrote. From facts and guesses, from words and silences, Maciej Wojtyszko composes a story about "fatherland" and "sonland" alike, about a Polishness that presents an incessant challenge.
set design: Paweł Dobrzycki
lighting: Grzegorz Kędzierski
music: Piotr Moss
set design assistant: Agata Skajster
video: Agata Skajster
stage manager: Mateusz Karoń
prompter: Małgorzata Ziemak
executive producer: Magdalena Mróz
This performance will be presented in Polish with no surtitles.