Another emerging director from Kraków’s AST, Tadeusz Pyrczak has been invited to collaborate by Bartosz Szydłowski, head of Łaźnia Nowa and Boska Komedia / Divine Comedy. Pyrczak, who has won several awards at the Kraków Forum of Young Directing and worked as an assistant to Luk Perceval, Maja Kleczewska, and Krzysztof Garbaczewski, draws on Camus’s Myth of Sisyphus developing its philosophy by transporting it into our times, and infusing with irony and a sense of the absurd.

A tale of three young people lost in a world of dysfunction and bizarre rituals, where daily life resembles an endless loop of decadent parties, empty relationships, and flights from existential fears. The characters lose themselves in their chosen lifestyle, going for stagnation and deviant behaviours as their form of rebellion against reality. They embrace each disappointment with ironic humour, drifting between disdain for the world and a shallow, hedonistic self-satisfaction. When an outsider intrudes on their fossilised world, a sense of anxiousness sprouts beneath their nihilistic jokes and cynical retorts.

“I want the audience to laugh with me at my, at our obsessions. Laughing together at the toughest matters in life starts a community”, says Tadeusz Pyrczak. And right he is. Never underestimate the power
of laughter!

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Photos by Klaudyna Schubert