One of the key productions of the season, inspired by the hype-winning reports of Janusz Schwertner, a journalist working for onet.pl, who examined the system of child psychiatric care in Poland and attempted to answer the question why the rate of suicides in our country is so high among the young. A year after the moving Śmierć Jana Pawła II / Death of Pope John Paul II, the director of the play, Jakub Skrzywanek, the current artistic director of the Współczesny Theatre in Szczecin, returns to the Boska Komedia / Divine Comedy Festival. This time, to examine the often-overlooked subject of the functioning of the state welfare system, but he beckons each and every one of us to find answers. Spartacus makes us look in the mirror and ask ourselves how we take care of our loved ones and all those in need of our help. The production was created in collaboration with various communities, including the Country Women’s Association from Stobno, the LGBTQ+ organisation Lambda Szczecin, and artists gathered around the Współczesny Theatre and the Academy of Arts in Szczecin. The culmination of this frenetic images loaded spectacle continuing in Kraków its triumphant tour of Poland, is the wedding of always a different non-heteronormative couple staged in the play. Thanks to Spartacus, dozens of such couples have symbolically joined in matrimony.

→ after the performance, a meeting with the creators is led by: Magdalena Piekarska

Fot. Piotr Nykowski