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    Modernity and tradition - that is, art at the highest level

    The Wybrzeże Theater has been a theatrical showcase of Pomerania for years, one of the largest and most interesting Polish theaters, and after renovation completed in the fall of 2023, a theater with one of the most modern stages in Europe. Adam Orzechowski, general and artistic director of the Wybrzeże Theater, who has held this position since 2006, has taken on the responsibility not only for the artistic shape of the theater, but also for improving the theatrical substance itself. It was on his initiative that all four stages were built or rebuilt, thanks to which the quality of the theater is demonstrated not only by its artistic successes, but also by its high-quality theater infrastructure, unique in the country.

    Teatr Wybrzeże is a sign of artistic quality and at the same time a dynamically operating institution that provides the inhabitants of Tricity and the surrounding area with access to the highest level of theater art. For fifteen seasons, Teatr Wybrzeże has been successfully presenting its performances on the Summer Stage in Pruszcz Gdański, where the performances were watched by over one hundred thousand viewers at that time. Last summer, sixteen theater evenings and family afternoons attracted nearly seventeen thousand viewers. Thanks to a subsidy from the Pruszcz Gdański commune, the Wybrzeże Theater regularly travels with its artistic offer outside the Tricity, and viewers gathered at the Cultural Factory can watch Wybrzeże's performances free of charge, which significantly helps the theater fulfill its missionary function.

    Adam Orzechowski, as an artistic director, has developed his own model of managing the theater's repertoire over the years. It includes artistically refined pieces, but at the same time the theater does not shy away from ambitious proposals from the so-called middle repertoire. It includes dramas and comedies by well-known and recognized creators (Arthur Muller, Oscar Wilde, Yasmina Reza, Howard Barker, Thomas Bernhard), but also performances based on acting improvisations (Beautiful Zośka), musical performances (Karmaniola, Wsopotowieci), fairy tales for children (Enchanted Beauty, The Rogues of Fox Witalis, The Golden Key) or adaptations of novels (Insensitivity, Chronicle of Accidents love stories).

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    Performances presented in December:

    Riot in Chioggia

    Carlo Goldoni

    director: Paweł Aigner

    The timeless potential of the text, the dynamics of the action, one of the best 18th-century comedies! We invite you to Chioggia, a small port town where wives have just settled on the streets. They weave lace, wait for husbands, lovers and fiancées, intrigue and... gossip. As a result, they start an apocalyptic quarrel. The master comedy by Carlo Goldoni has a happy ending, of course. But before that happens, we'll have a huge title fight waiting for us!

    Beautiful Zośka

    Justyna Bilik, Marcin Wierzchowski

    director: Marcin Wierzchowski

    In 1927, in a village near Krakow, a crime takes place that electrifies the whole of Poland. The victim is a peasant woman, the muse of famous Krakow painters, the Young Poland model Zofia Paluchowa, known as Piękna Zośka. The only suspect in this case - her husband Maciej, a shoemaker and farmer - pleads not guilty. The legal process begins. Each subsequent witness brings us closer and closer to the crime scene - the Paluch family. In a dark peasant cottage, nothing is what it seems. You have to sketch it anew, measure your emotions precisely, whitewash the walls so you can sit at a common table, and cover your ears so you don't hear the screaming. We enter a family drama that asks questions about the violence embedded in the rural landscape and folk songs as in our DNA.

    Darkness covers the Earth

    Based on the novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski

    director: Tomasz Fryzeł

    "If I could pray, I would pray for his death," says the young Dominican Diego about Grand Inquisitor Tomas Torquemada, who is just passing through the gates of the city of Villa-Réal. The monastery filled with fear becomes the place where the leader of the Holy Inquisition operates. A place of confrontation that will change the lives of each of them. The adaptation of the novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski, published in 1957, is a laboratory of interpersonal relations, motivations and desires of characters in situations of power, hierarchy and ideology that permeates everything. The creators of the show focus on what is small and intimate about the characters, which is universal and close to us. In their interpretation, it is not so much a story about the Inquisition, but a story about everyday fear, conformism, courage, the temptation of power and rebellion.

    Golden Key

    Script based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm: Marta Giergielewicz

    director: Maćko Prusak

    Peter has a Mom, a Dad, a House, a Snow Shovel and Nasty Boys as neighbors. You could say that Piotruś is an ordinary boy whose life is orderly, predictable and... a bit boring. But Peter also has an eccentric Grandpa who tells extraordinary fairy tales, and when Grandpa tells a story, strange things start to happen... From behind the wall you can hear the cry of the Princess, cruelly treated by fate, behind him there is an Enchanted Forest, a Golden Goose flashes among the tree roots, bringing happiness to honest people. And when Grandpa tells this, everything changes, not only the Ugly Frog becomes the Beautiful Prince, but even Mom, Dad and the Unpleasant Neighbors become different... Because a fairy tale has the power to change the world, and Peter and Grandpa find this out on their own skin. .

    Chronicle of love accidents

    Tadeusz Konwicki

    director: Jarosław Tumidajski

    CHRONICLE OF LOVE ACCIDENTS is a record of a unique spring in one's life, a spring full of desires, first sex and first alcohol. The action of one of Tadeusz Konwicki's most famous novels takes us to pre-war Vilnius, where we meet a group of high school graduates, including two people madly in love with each other - Wić and Alina. Young lovers want the whole world to belong to them and their love, but the world and history have other plans for them... Alarm sirens sound over the city. War is coming.

    The mischief-making of Vitalis the fox

    Jan Brzechwa

    director: Joanna Zdrada

    THE CHILDREN OF LISA WITALIS is a classic of children's literature in a new version. Witalis is the fox of foxes. There are amazing stories about his extraordinary cleverness. His magnificent tail adds to his splendor: "When Witalis was walking along the road, first his tail was seen hanging like a red cloud, and only then the fox's tail." The perverse and calculating redhead is able to gain the favor of the forest inhabitants. Promising the proverbial "pears on the willow", he is elected president of the forest community. Was this the leader the animals wanted? The story of a cunning scoundrel who implements his evil plans at the expense of his brethren is, in fact, a kind of parody of democracy. This is a show for children and parents, for grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles... Witalis' adventures entertain and educate across generations, without losing their relevance.

    The growls of the milky way

    Bonn Park

    directed by: Adam Orzechowski

    GROWLS OF THE MILKY WAY is a kind of political fiction, a socio-political metacabaret whose main characters come from the front pages of newspapers. Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un and Heidi Klum function here on the same ontological principles - as products of Bonn Park's own fantasy. On the one hand, it is a predatory satire on the global status quo, in social and political terms, and on the other, a moving diagnosis of the powerlessness behind the greatest tragedies of the modern world.

    Who is Mr. Schmitt?

    Sébastien Thiéry

    directed by: Jan Hussakowski

    WHO IS MR. SCHMITT? is an absurd tragicomedy, the action of which plunges into the quiet, bourgeois life of the main characters and forces them to find themselves in a crazy and unusual situation. Mr. Baran and his wife try to logically explain what is happening to them, at the same time piling up more lies to distance themselves from the threat and get out of further absurdities. The only question is, how long can you be sure that you are right when everyone around you says that you are wrong? And how long can you not go crazy?

    Intelligentsia

    Marek Modzelewski

    director: Radosław B. Maciąg

    Anna and Szczepan are a progressive middle-aged couple, representing the so-called upper middle class. Together they raise two sons, the older of whom - Łukasz - is rapidly entering adulthood, and the younger - Maks - is about to receive his first Holy Communion. Both of these circumstances, seemingly completely trivial, trigger an avalanche of events in the family, forcing the characters to go beyond the established patterns of clearly declared attitudes. INTELLIGENTS is not another story with a thesis and a moral. Modzelewski's art is rather an appeal - a call for a disappearing dialogue, the gradual extinction of which causes a split not only between political and cultural formations, but above all - between people close to each other. Through the fate of the four heroes, we observe a global crisis of values ​​caused by the inappropriate handling of freedom, which did not come with an instruction manual.

    Bunbury. A comedy for people without a sense of humor

    Oscar Wilde

    directed by: Kuba Kowalski

    BUNBURY by Oscar Wilde is one great dethronement of seriousness, anarchic fun in which our attachment to labels, order and clearly defined social roles is exposed. In a brazenly light-hearted way, Oscar Wilde asks one of the most serious questions we can ask ourselves: who am I? And can I be someone else than I am? You can be whoever you want, Wilde seems to reply. Your identity is fluid and your origins do not determine it in any way. Or at least let it be that way for the duration of the show

    Common room - PREMIERE

    Konrad Hetel

    directed by: Radek Stępień

    We are in Gdańsk in 1945. The first Christmas since the end of the war is approaching. The city center, almost completely destroyed, resembles a sea of ​​ruins, but life is being reborn on the outskirts. This is where successive waves of life survivors from various corners of Poland come to look for a place for themselves in the new reality. Hoping that Gdańsk will become their home, they try their best to survive the difficult post-war winter. Apartments in Gdańsk, abandoned by their previous German tenants, welcome new repatriates, who use the remains of their saved belongings to buy the right to register in cold, deserted rooms. Living together in such a small space must lead to inevitable tensions and conflicts. And one room may not accommodate them all…

    Romeo and Juliet is not dead

    Based on William Shakespeare's drama

    director: Michał Siegoczyński

    When the only alternative to saving love is to take a poison whose effects are supposed to wear off after three days and give the lovers a resurrection in a brave new world free from borders, does that sound like a good plan? Or maybe another question is more pertinent: maybe something went wrong? Eternal lovers return to the stage of life once again to challenge the world and try to find a place for themselves among pop culture clichés, cheating fate. But will the great theater of the world allow them to do so? Or will he turn them back into the iconic Lovers of Verona poster? One thing remains unchanged - Romeo and Juliet's request for you to keep your fingers crossed for them once again, with the only difference being that this time you hold them a little tighter.

    Everything is fake

    Based on the libretto by Marcellus Schiffer

    director: Paweł Aigner

    Welcome to Berlin in the 1930s. The city of tolerance and freedom. In the place of happiness and all pleasures. Cabaret of freedom, carousel of vanity - here you can be whoever you want! A gentleman, 28 years old, wealthy, educated, wants friendship with a slim and elegant blonde lady under 25. An elegant blonde lady, wealthy, educated, with a penchant for adventure, is looking for a suitable tango partner. This is how a chance meeting of two young people begins, which becomes the beginning of a night full of adventures. They both want to experience something, although each of them pretends to be someone else. How will it end and who are these young people really? In the end, it doesn't matter, because it's all fake anyway. A fast-paced black comedy in which love and crime intertwine. Where Hitler dances arm in arm with a Jew, and Magnus Hirschfeld is not afraid of the morality police. Nothing seems real in this world except the desire to experience love and adventure.

    Change

    Édouard Louis

    director: Radosław Rychcik

    Abandon poverty, small town and parochial thinking. Break away, leave fear behind and be able to fully be yourself - and maybe even someone else, better? Édouard underwent an identity metamorphosis, which he carried out methodically and with great dedication. The project of social advancement became his obsession. Will achieving the desired effect give him a sense of satisfaction? Who will you become at the end of this journey? An autobiographical story of class advancement and the simultaneous struggle for his identity as a homosexual man born into the working class. The novel by the renowned French writer is striking in its accuracy of social observations and sincerity of personal expiations, and at the same time holds a mirror to all attempts to fight for one's own emancipation. It is no coincidence that Édouard Louis is currently one of the most widely read French writers

    The Glass Menagerie

    Tennessee Williams

    director: Stanisław Chludziński

    Laura refuses to contact the world. They say there is something wrong with her. Instead of reality, he chooses glass figurines. These assumptions were created by Tennessee Williams around 1945. However, in our performance we will travel through time, trying to find answers to questions about otherness, family relationships that mark us for life, and what these glass figurines can be today. Maybe series in which we immerse ourselves tightly covered with a blanket?

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