Northern Theatre Harag György Company

The dramas of Słobodzianek are moving on the periphery of consciousness, on the borders legends and apocriphas. Elements of ancient mystery plays and biblical stories mingle with folklore and popular ribald humour. Divine mingles with human, pathetic with vulgar, serious with grotesque. The author gives the ritual a body odour and sanctifies the prophane – the myth of Passion Week turns into its own reverse, and the miracle vanishes. Yet, its world is not desperate – his God has not died together with Nietzsche, He only lives further in the beauties of life, in humanity and in the love of this life instead of living as the weapon of some popular ideologies on the pages of primers. (Krzysztof Kopka)