SOLO DIFFERENTLY: Jadwiga

About the event

MIK Auditorium ✨ January 16 and 17, 7:00 PM ⏰ duration: 80 minutes 💸 tickets: 75 PLN, available at the MIK box office and online: https://www.mik.waw.pl/repertuar/ ♿ accessibility: induction loop _____ If you were to look for one word to try to describe the life of Jadwiga Stańczakowa, it would be: shadow. Loss of sight, entering the shadow. The shadow of her father. The shadow of Jewish heritage. The shadow of the ghetto. The shadow of a lost brother and friends. The shadow of Miron Białoszewski. The shadow of depression. But this one word cannot describe an entire life. Because the path of the blind Jadwiga Stańczakowa is also an unimaginable, arduous, and often hopeless struggle to emerge from the shadow. From every shadow. Into the light. Into her own creativity, her own self, self-determination, self-acceptance, and deciding her own fate. The fate of a woman, mother, grandmother, journalist, and poet. She called herself: "I am a blind person." And as one of the first, she dared to write about the loss of sight and depression, in a way no one had written before. The monodrama performed by Agnieszka Przepiórska will not be a story about the life of a forgotten, ill poet, whom literary scholars have pigeonholed as "the one from Miron." It will be a poetic journey about a woman who is brave, resilient, tough, and sensitive at the same time, with broad horizons and interests, seeing much more and further than most who thought their sight was just fine. It's a wild ride, on a flying carpet, to the stars, to colors, to green. "This is not a role in the classical sense, I'm not just trying to play Jadwiga, I'm trying to get closer to her inner world, to the way she experienced reality: people, poetry, silence. I try to approach her sense of seeing through words, sounds, presence. For me, Jadwiga was a poet who heard the world so deeply and in such tones that even the attempt to get close to that feeling moves me. I don't want to 'play' her. I don't want to create a character. I'm searching for an experience—a true, tender encounter with what might have been inside her. With the silence she carried. With the courage to be herself. It's a huge challenge, but an even greater honor to carry this story. The story of an extraordinary woman." – Agnieszka Przepiórska monodrama by Agnieszka Przepiórska - text: Piotr Rowicki - direction: Anna Gryszkówna - music: Piotr Skotnicki - set and costumes: Matylda Kotlińska - choreography: Karolina Kraczkowska - lighting: Michał Głaszczka Co-producers of the show: - Act&Flow Agnieszka Przepiórska - Jan Kochanowski Museum in Czarnolas _____ Agnieszka Przepiórska – theater actress associated with the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków, film and TV actress, educator, producer, curator of the Carpe Diem festival. For 10 years, she has been creating biographical theater, which she herself calls "biotheater," as the performances in this cycle are artistically and theatrically processed biographies of women—the scripts are based on acclaimed book publications. On stage, she has confronted, among others, Zuzanna Ginczanka ("Ginczanka. Recipe for the Simplicity of Life") and Simona Kossak ("Simona K. Calling in the Wilderness"). Her role as Barbara Sadowska in the play "You Don't Die in May" was honored by the magazine "Teatr" with the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Award for the best female acting performance in the 2022/23 season. Recent months have also brought her outstanding roles as Wisława Szymborska in "Szymborska. Dots, Commas, Cigarettes" and Anna Walentynowicz in "My Name is Anna Walentynowicz." For her portrayal of Irenka K. in the monodrama "Saved" directed by Maja Kleczewska in 2024, she was nominated in the O!Lśnienia poll by Onet and the City of Warsaw and received the title of Best Actress at the 31st International Festival of Pleasant and Unpleasant Arts. Piotr Rowicki – playwright. He graduated in history from the University of Białystok. In 2008, he debuted with the play "Przylgnięcie" at the Drama Laboratory in Warsaw. Winner of many awards and distinctions, including twice winner of the competition for Polish contemporary drama "Metaphors of Reality" organized by the Polish Theatre in Poznań. Author of dozens of plays, including: - "Painted Boy" - "Mothers" - "And There Will Be Holidays" - "The Unfaithful" - "Piszczyk" - "Dad Doesn't Come Back" - "White Power, Black Memory" - "Ćesky Diplom" - "So There Are No Traces" - "Kings of the Shooters" - "The Independent" - "To Kill the President" - "Ginczanka. Recipe for the Simplicity of Life" - "Simona K. Calling in the Wilderness" - "Listen to Your Heart" - "Freak" - "You Don't Die in May" - "Szymborska. Dots, Commas, Cigarettes" - "Saved" Anna Gryszkówna – actress, director. Since 2004, a member of the National Theatre ensemble. She has collaborated with Warsaw stages: Teatr Nowy Praga, Teatr Studio Buffo, Teatr Stara ProchOFFnia. At the Teatr na Woli im. Łomnickiego, she worked with Ondrej Spišák—she played Rachelka in "Our Class" by Tadeusz Słobodzianek (2010; TV version: 2014) and with Jakub Krofta—she performed in "Madame" by Antoni Libera (2012). For years, she has collaborated with Agnieszka Przepiórska, directing her monodramas, with texts by Piotr Rowicki: - "Ginczanka. Recipe for the Simplicity of Life" (Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Kraków, 2020) - "Simona K. Calling in the Wilderness" (Big Book Café Festival in Warsaw, 2020) - "My Name is Anna Walentynowicz" (Gdańsk Shipyard 2022) - "You Don't Die in May. The Story of Barbara Sadowska" (Dom Spotkań z Historią Warsaw, 2023) Additionally, she has staged, among others, "Idę" based on the novel "House of Day, House of Night" by Olga Tokarczuk, "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf, and poems by Anna Świrszczyńska (direction and text adaptation; produced as part of the "And What Now?" cycle during the 25th Theatre Confrontations in Lublin, 2020). The show was created especially for the 5th edition of the PERSONA Women's Art Festival.