Premiere: 30 January 2004
Author: Tadeusz Różewicz
Title: A Little Soul based on poems „Little Soul” and „Et in Arcadia ego”
Original Title: Duszyczka
Director: Jerzy Grzegorzewski

Auditorium: Wierzbowa basement underpass, entrance to the Boguslawski Hall

Running time: 1 hour 10 min, no interval

A Little Soul

Jan Englert in the theatre of Jerzy Grzegorzewski – the master director's last production is still on. In the basement underpass of National Theatre, Tadeusz Różewicz's fervent discourse confronts us with middle-age experience and the absurdity of death.

Jerzy Grzegorzewski approached Różewicz's work on many occasions. In this poem – which was recommended by its author to be read "in a single breath" – the main character re-examines his life and conscience, leads us through the labyrinths of memory and critically reflects on his masculinity. This is a tale of a human soul – weak, pathetic, but beautiful as well.


author of stage adaptation, director, set designer: Jerzy Grzegorzewski 
costume design: Barbara Hanicka 
music: Stanisław Radwan 
lighting design: Mirosław Poznański 
frescoes (murals): Robert Sarlej

live music on double bass: Roman Ziobro.

Cast: 

R Jan Englert
Witness Waldemar Kownacki
Actress Anna Chodakowska
Actress Beata Fudalej
Actress Anna Gryszkówna
Actress Anna Ułas
Actress Magdalena Warzecha

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Wiesława Niemyska
  • set designer's assistants: Jadwiga Michalska, Anita Trzaskowska
  • lighting technicians: Łukasz Obuch-Woszczatyński 
  • sound technicians: Mariusz Maszewski, Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski, Piotr Gos
  • stage manager: Ewa Dworecka 

Gallery:

Anna Gryszkówna (Actress), Beata Fudalej (Actress), Jan Englert (R). Phot. Wojciech Plewiński

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