Premiere: 15 March 2006
Author: Michał Walczak
Title: The First Time
Original Title: Pierwszy raz
Director: Tadeusz Bradecki

Auditorium: Studio Theatre
Running time: 1 hour 30 min

The First Time

director: Tadeusz Bradecki
set design: Jagna Janicka

Awards and Nominations:

2006 – Main Prize of Young Authors' Forum (Forum junger Autoren, Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2006) to Michał Walczak for the play The First Time

Cast:

She Kamilla Baar
He Wojciech Solarz

Production team:

  • set designer's assistants: Jadwiga Michalska, Anita Trzaskowska
  • sound technician: Wojciech Błaszczyk  lighting technicians: Andrzej Szwaczyk, Krzysztof Trzaskowski 
  • stage manager: Anna Serdiukow

Gallery:

Wojciech Solarz (He), Kamilla Baar (She). Phot. Michał Mrowiec

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