Un-packing - post-premiere performances at the Dramatic Theatre

About the event

The Dramatic Theatre invites you to post-premiere performances in September. The play by Katarzyna Kalwat and Mikita Ilynychyk is a dystopian political fiction on the border of grotesque and documentary. It is also a story about a family that becomes a social lens, a lens full of tensions and misunderstandings. Set in the near future – but painfully real – it tells the story of a Europe in a state of disintegration, where migrants become bargaining chips in election campaigns, and narratives of solidarity and openness turn out to be political fiction. In creating this story, Kalwat and Ilynychyk were inspired by the book "The Stones Had to Fly: The Erased Past of Podlasie" by Aneta Prymaka-Oniszk, nominated for the Nike Literary Award 2025. In the book, the author breaks years of silence, giving voice to the Belarusian-Orthodox minority in Poland and uncovering an erased layer of local history. The creators incorporated fragments of the reportage into the dramatic fabric of the play. "Un-packing" is a story about the past and the future – about a world where liberal answers fail, and radical ideas gain support. More on the theatre's website: https://teatrdramatyczny.pl