Zły. Warsaw Jazz Opera at Rampa

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Teatr Rampa has prepared a premiere based on the novel "Zły" and "Dziennik 1954" by Leopold Tyrmand. Post-war Warsaw is swept up by the enthusiasm of reconstruction and a new, wild music – jazz. In the first jazz club at Konopnicka 6, followers of the capital's new sound gather: hipsters, gangsters, and dance floor stars. The undisputed king of this place is the writer, boxer, and playboy: Leopold Tyrmand. When the club is shut down by the regime fighting against indecency, Tyrmand falls into depression and roams the city overtaken by hooligans. During one of his outings, he gets into a fight defending a high school graduate, who becomes his lover, and stumbles upon the trail of a masked avenger, fighting crime alone. Shortly after, the girl disappears, and the writer-detective sets out to find her. He uncovers a dark, gangster-ridden Warsaw – a city of sin, where mafia connections and brute force rule. Will the writer manage to regain his love and solve the mystery of Warsaw's most famous superhero – Zły? On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Teatr Rampa in Targówek, we invite you on a wild journey to Warsaw in 1954 – a city being rebuilt, resonating with jazz, controlled from above by a regime censoring every expression of freedom, and from below by bandits lurking in the streets. Only a superhero can stand against the latter. Based on "Dziennik 1954" and the novel "Zły" by Leopold Tyrmand, this jazz opera is a musical rollercoaster where boxing mixes with eroticism, and violence intertwines with the romance of Warsaw's alleys, suburbs, and courtyards. More on the theater's website.