"The Melodrama" is not a show about addiction, emptied bottles, or the drama of a hangover, nor is it about the person doing the drinking. This is not a show about the romantic myth of a self-destructive sensitive genius that can do whatever and whenever. We ask: who is the person in the background? Who is the eternally supporting character, the co-addicted person?

"The Melodrama" is a story about Kuba and Krystyna, a couple entangled in a codependent cycle of ups and downs. The show takes its characters from "Pętla" by Marek Hłasko, however, it redirects its attention to Krystyna and the relations outside the male-female stereotype. In 2023, we live in a completely different world, which we peel like an onion from the successive layers of patriarchal power.

In the show, we will follow the path of thoughts, beliefs, and the impulses of the Good Wife which does not necessarily have to be played by a woman. Hłasko starts his short story with a motto: “Life doesn’t hurt next to a good woman”. Will the Good Wife be able to find a new definition of goodness and care for herself, will she be able to become independent – not spectacularly, politically, or on the streets, but privately and intimately?

Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw

Meeting with creators after the performance

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