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CO-CREATION / PERFORMANCE
The Crypt of Zbigniew Majchrowski

This performative dinner is a tribute to Professor Zbigniew Majchrowski, a distinguished scholar of Polish culture, literature, and theater from Gdańsk. Through a paratheatrical experience, the event invites the audience to step into Majchrowski’s critical perspective and his engagement with the Romantic archdrama Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz. In this performance, the viewer takes center stage—critical, sensitive, aware, engaging with art, and recognizing its broader contexts.

Together with the performers, the audience enters a 'crypt' filled with the spectral remnants of Romanticism—faded symbols, iconic performances, myths, and sensory artifacts from Polish culture, such as groats, vodka, and apple pie.


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CREDITS

creation: Katarzyna Dudzic - Grabińska, Jerzy Basiura, Paweł Bernadowski

scenography and costumes: Jerzy Basiura

music: Monika Orłowska, Mariusz Mruczek, Aleksandra Stadniczenko, Maja Maseli

video: Robert Suszko

photos: Kornelia Głowacka-Wolf

a production by: Gdańsk - City of Literature, Gdańsk (PL)

PREMIERE

18. 05. 2024 - Gdańsk - City of Literature, Gdańsk (PL)