Balladyna 68

In the sky
There is God… I will forget there is, I will live
As if God did not exist.
– Juliusz Słowacki, Balladyna

The performance presents the story of Balladyna – but not the merciless one from Juliusz Słowacki’s original. This adaptation is based on the version by Jeremi Przybora, where classic literature meets absurdity, and grand literary gestures collide with puppet-theatre detail. Here drama mixes with farce, and murder with grotesque. Every year Balladyna rises from the grave like a high-school-exam specter, haunting teachers and terrorizing Polish literature instructors. Loneliness has become her curse, memories – her torture.

In this monodrama, the heroine recounts the path she had to take to sit on the throne.

Is her ruthlessness allowed to be funny? Where is the boundary between power and madness?

Warning: Some scenes may be disturbing for vegetarians.