The performance is recommended for viewers aged 16 and over.
The performance discusses the topics of mourning and addiction to psychoactive devices and there are vulgarities.
Performance with English subtitles.

In the sensitive story of the friendship between Elena and Lila, Ferrante describes the the phenomenon of a feminine sensibility. The one associated with intuition and emotion, and most often deprecated. In “My Brilliant Friend”, the feminine sensibility is also a ripening consciousness of the social processes taking place in the main protagonists’ surroundings. Elena and Lila, could not be more different. One is an introvert and a conformist who sets goals; the other is seductive, proud, and unpredictable. They are growing up in a poor neighbourhood in Naples in the 1950s. While Elena has access to an education, Lila has to decide whether to get married at a young age. For all their lives, both try to reject the place they came from, they don’t want to live like their mothers, aunts, and cousins. They take extremely different strategies to climb the social ladder. Can poverty be left behind? Can Elena and Lila protect themselves and others from suffering with their unique sensibilities, nurtured through friendship? And what about the men, who have easily found their way for years in this violent world?

“Non-obvious, shifting in tension, by turns tender and merciless. My Brilliant Friend is one of the most sensual performances I have seen in the theatre recently. [...] Paruszyńska-Czacka and Staniec make a phenomenal duo on the stage of the Stary Theatre – Marciniak has cast two thirty-three-year-olds in the lead roles who are older than the girls they play at every moment of the action. But age does not matter here – their performance on the Stary stage is not so much an impersonation of a character as a kind of return to oneself from the past, an immersion in the changeability of contexts and tensions”.

Magda Piekarska, Notatnik teatralny

“What the director seems to be saying is: ‘I have told you about beautiful and difficult things as well and as beautifully as I could, but this is where my part ends, and you are faced with hard choices in the future. May you have the strength to change them for the better’”.

Jacek Cieślak, Teatralny.pl

Language: Polish (English subtitles provided)

After the performance there will be a meeting with the creators.

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