Opening Night: 11 February 2017
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Title: The Idiot
Original Title: Идиот
Translator: Jerzy Jędrzejewicz
Director: Paweł Miśkiewicz

Auditorium: Wierzbowa Street Hall 
Running time: 3 hours 40 min including one interval

The Idiot

The stage adaptation of one of the masterpieces of the 19th century novel.

Russia and the world on the brink of chaos. Returning from the West, Prince Myshkin seeks salvation from the Apocalypse in the faith of the ancients. Is he holy or ridiculous? Is he following Christ or just pretending to be him?

director: Paweł Miśkiewicz
stage adaptation: Joanna BednarczykPaweł Miśkiewicz                                                                                      
set design: Barbara Hanicka 
music: Anna Zaradny
lighting design: Wojciech Puś
dramaturg: Joanna Bednarczyk

Cast:

Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin Paweł Tomaszewski (guest actor)
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova Wiktoria Gorodeckaja / Justyna Kowalska (from March 1, 2018)
Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin Mateusz Rusin
Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky Jan Frycz
Lukyan Timofyevich Lebedev Mariusz Benoit (as a guest actor till August 31, 2017)
Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin Mariusz Bonaszewski (as a guest actor from September 1, 2019)
Lizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchin Dominika Kluźniak
Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchin Paulina Szostak
Adelaida Ivanovna Yepanchin Justyna Kowalska / Michalina Łabacz (from March 1, 2018)
Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin Przemysław Stippa
Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin Włodzimierz Press (guest actor) / Waldemar Kownacki (from March 15, 2019)
Keller Marcin Przybylski
Student Wiktoria Wolańska (as a guest actress from September 1, 2018)
Hippolit Terentyev Maciej Hanczewski (guest actor)
Antip Burdovsky Jakub Gawlik (as a guest actor till August 5, 2020)

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Justyna Kowalska 
  • lighting technicians: Łukasz Obuch-Woszczatyński, Tomasz Księżak 
  • sound technicians: Marcin Kotwa, Maciej Rybicki
    • video projection: Mariusz Chałubek, Paweł Woźniak
  • stage manager: Adam Borkowski
  • prompter: Anna Leszczyńska


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