The performance contains effects: loud music, gunshots, cigarette smoke and marijuana-smelling smoke, as well as sensitive content: death (including the death of a child), execution, drugs, suicide, and vulgarities.

”Nights and Days” is a play about first and last love. Its impressive breadth and historical costumes are juxtaposed with today’s version of the story of Barbara and Bogumił saturated in pop culture references. Marriage of convenience or unreciprocated love? Romance or death? The characters fight for happiness and fulfilment, but they also fight for two different visions for Poland. This story stretches between love and war, immersing us in a tale of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

The performance directed by Michał Siegoczyński is a reflection in a mirror of the present day while remaining in dialogue with the original and its screen adaptations

“Although the show is designed to be funny, with a heavy dose of intelligent humour, we quickly realise that it is black humour. An incredible amount of irony, pastiche and irreverent mockery pours from the stage. [...] An absolutely, sumptuously beautiful show – utterly enthralling in every way”.

Joanna Marcinkowska, Dziennik Teatralny

“On the one hand, the performance is an essay on man, his experiences and the memory from which he draws these experiences after many years; on the other hand, it is an attempt to understand how these human experiences are transformed into art (literature, film or theatre) and how this magical transformation takes place. I can assure those who are bored by such reflections that they will certainly not be bored by Siegoczyński’s production. It is a play about all of us and about each of us individually, which is why you will laugh and cry without exception, albeit at different moments”.

Tomasz Domagała, DOMAGAŁAsieKULTURY.PL

Language: Polish (English subtitles provided).

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

Cast

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