Opening Night: 14 February 2009
Author: Włodzimierz Perzyński
Title: Reckless Sister
Original Title: Lekkomyślna siostra
Director: Agnieszka Glińska

Auditorium: Wierzbowa Street Hall
Running time: 1 hour 30 min, no interval

Reckless Sister

director: Agnieszka Glińska
set design: Agnieszka Zawadowska
music: Maciej Małecki
lighting design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski

Awards and Nominations:

2010 – The Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award in "theatre" category to Agnieszka Glińska for direction of Reckless Sister
2009 – nomination for the Warsaw Felix award in "the best female leading role" category for Ewa Konstancja Bułhak for the role of Helen Topolski

Cast:

Henry Topolski, the industrialist Krzysztof Stelmaszyk
Helen Topolski, his wife Ewa Konstancja Bułhak
Janek Topolski Paweł Paprocki
Wladyslaw Zbigniew Zamachowski / Łukasz Lewandowski (guest actor)
Maria, wife of Wladyslaw, sister of the Topolski family Agnieszka Glińska (guest actress)
Ada, cousin of the Topolski family Patrycja Soliman
Olszewski Piotr Grabowski
Housekeeper Wiesława Niemyska

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Katarzyna Raduszyńska
  • set designer's assistants: Dorota Chojecka, Anita Trzaskowska
  • lighting technicians: Janusz Kuczyński, Zbigniew Magdziarski 
  • sound technicians: Marcin Kotwa, Maciej Rybicki 
  • video projections: Mariusz Chałubek, Paweł Woźniak
    stage manager: Adam Borkowski 
  • prompter: Alina Wieczorkówna

Gallery:

Ewa Konstancja Bułhak (Helen Topolski), Piotr Grabowski (Olszewski). Phot. Robert Jaworski

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