Opening Night: 2 March 2000
Author: Molière
Title: The School for Wives
Original Title: L’École des femmes
Translator: Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Director:
Jan Englert

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 2 hours 10 min

The School for Wives

director: Jan Englert
set design: Andrzej Kreütz Majewski
music: Maciej Małecki
lighting design: Krzysztof Trzaskowski

Awards and Nominations:

2000 – nomination for the Warsaw Felix award in "the best theatre director" category for Jan Englert for direction of The School of Wives
2000 – The Andrzej Nardelli Award of Theatre Critics Section of the Association of Polish Stage Artists (ZASP) to Paulina Kinaszewska for the best acting debut of the 1999/2000 season for the role of Agnes
2001 – "The most pleasant actor" award of the VII
National Festival of Pleasant Plays in Łódź to Jan Englert for the role of Arnolphe
2001 – "The most pleasant spectacle" award of the VII National Festival of Pleasant Plays in Łódź

Cast:

Arnolphe, or Mr Rosochacki / conductor Jan Englert
Agnes, a naive young girl raised by Arnolphe / violin II Paulina Kinaszewska / Aneta Todorczuk (as a guest actor from March 3, 2001 to August 31, 2002)
Horace, Agnes's lover / violin I Marcin Przybylski (guest actor)
Grzela, a peasant, Arnolphe's servant / guitar II Emilian Kamiński
Aggy, a peasant woman, Arnolphe's servant / cello Beata Ścibakówna
Chrysalde, Arnolphe's friend / drums Andrzej Blumenfeld
Enrique, Chrysalde's brother-in-law / harpsichord Mirosław Jastrzębski
Oronte, Horace's father and Arnolphe's old friend / Notary / Janitor of the orchestra Jerzy Łapiński
Servant I / guitar I Robert Czebotar (guest actor)
Servant II / clarinet Kacper Kuszewski (guest actor) / Mariusz Głębocki (guest actor)

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Mariusz Bieliński
  • set designer's assistants: Jadwiga Michalska, Anita Trzaskowska
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Korneliusz Wieczorek
    sound techniciansRafał Barański, Mariusz Maszewski
  • prompter: Alina Wieczorkówna

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