The performance contains loud sound effects.

In December 1989, Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena saw what was happening on the streets and how the demonstrators were reacting to the sight of them. Still, they did not allow themselves to think that the public was turning against them. According to both of them, their situation resulted from a betrayal. Until the very last moment, Ceauşescu rejected the accusation that they had driven the country into hunger and misery; instead, pointing to the successes they had achieved. The performance’s creators are also interested in the fate and behavior of those who accompanied the couple in their final hours.

Our ideas about war and the philosophical discourses of the second half of the 20th century have lost meaning. Francis Fukuyama’s famous concept proclaiming the end of history today sounds like history’s giggle.

Today, the entire democratic world is waiting for the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. Thirty-three years ago, the world’s focus was on Romania and the fall of the governments of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. The final days of their dictatorship and the subsequent televised execution reshaped the perception of the revolution, solidifying the undeniable nature of the event in the media.

"The Last Days of Elena and Nicolae Ceauşescu, directed by Wojciech Faruga, is an important play, dense with meaning and concertfully performed".

Janusz Milanowski, Gazeta Wyborcza

"For Julia Holewinska's drama and Wojciech Faruga's play are an indictment of the Romanian regime, an accounting of Elena and Nicolae for their crimes, and a realisation that tyranny - any tyranny - does not deserve the statute of limitations. In the Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz, this is not said through manifestos and so the thing is not just about this one dictatorship, but takes on a metaphorical dimension. This is very important, but what stays with me above all is a hard-to-grasp elegy to the death of two perhaps even tame, no longer fearful monsters".

Jacek Wakar, Zdania Wakara

Language: Polish (English subtitles provided)

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

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