The performance includes lighting a cigarette, using vulgar language, loud music, intense light effects, and smoke.
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
After the performance there will be a meeting with the creators after the performance

Someone is calling. Someone isn’t answering. Someone is having a birthday.
Someone is going to the doctor. Someone is a doctor. Someone is ill.
Someone has an appointment. Someone is being born. Someone is overdue. Someone is dying.
Someone has been abducted by aliens.
Someone hit their head and dreamed they were human.
“Paprykarz Szczeciński” is a comedy about life and death – and about what’s inside us, beneath the aluminum lid.

This production has it all! Genre-wise, it is a delectable blend of comedy, drama, musical, horror, and sci-fi, generously doused in a glorious sea of absurdity. Michał Kmiecik has written a brilliant script that draws liberally on pop-culture clichés while addressing life’s most fundamental questions. And while there is plenty to laugh at, be prepared for some powerful emotions too – a funny joke about a broken phone turns, in a split second, into a scene that grabs you by the throat. The creators have also ensured the production reaches a deeply moving finale.
Mateusz Michalski, na.sztuki

The style of Marcin Liber, who directs Kmiecik’s text, is all about spectacle on both a grand and intimate scale. He is an exceptionally talented, eclectic, and technically assured artist who, despite his long career, still knows exactly how to surprise an audience. (…) The enthusiastic reception of the Szczecin production shows just how much theatre needs room to breathe and play. When, towards the end, one of the actors asks from the stage, ‘So, did you enjoy it?’ there is no hesitation in his voice, no craving for approval. Instead, there is absolute certainty that this kind of theatre simply has to be made. Because it does.
Anna Pajęcka, Dwutygodnik

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