A SUMMER DAY
by Sławomir Mrożek
Directed by: Ofelia Popii
Assistant director and prompter: Corina Predescu,
Project manager: Claudia Maior
Cast:
The Gentleman - Adrian Matioc
The Young Man- Ciprian Scurtea
Sławomir Mrożek (29 June 1930, Borzęcin, Poland – 15 August 2013, Nice, France) was a Polish playwright, regarded as one of the most important European satirical writers of the second half of the 20th century. After making a name for himself in journalism as a cartoonist and grotesque, sharp, humorous short articles, in the ‘50s-‘60s he became a prominentfigure of Polish literature who managed to deceive the vigilance of Communist censors through the absurd character of his plays. He left Poland in 1963 and settled in Paris, then in 1989-1996 lived in Mexico. Mrożek returned to Poland for a few years, but in 2008 resettled in France. Some of his most renowned plays are The Police (1958), At Sea (1961) or The Emigrants (1974), as well as Tango (1964), which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966. ‘We live isolated and die alone. The destiny is our own psyche leading us with a will that isn’t ours. We need the other to find a purpose, a meaning in a competition pushing us to extermination. What is the meaning of losing? What is the meaning of winning? What's with this almost wild need to be a winner? In just a few moments during a life lasting as long as a day, laughter is our salvation. We live in cliches, create rules and break them only to build others, fight for freedoms that only restrict us. Laughter is the only thing that can free us. Let us then laugh at life and at death, at love and at hatred, at the concept of being human!’
Ofelia Popii
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