Opening Night: 10 December 2016
Author: Ronald Harwood
Title: Garderobiany
Original Title: The Dresser
Translator: Michał Ronikier
Director: Adam Sajnuk

Auditorium: Wierzbowa Street Hall
Running time: 1 hour 40 min, no interval

The Dresser

This is a story about elusiveness of the theatre, the power of the actor's transformation, personal and artistic fulfillment, and ultimately about the loneliness and decline of an artist.  

The Shakespeare's King Lear runs in the London playhouse. Sir, aging head of the theatre company and venerable stage actor is to perform the main role for the two hundred twenty seventh time. He is struggling with the routine and his weakening strength. His long-time dresser assists him.


director: Adam Sajnuk
set design: Katarzyna Adamczyk
music: Michał Lamża

Cast:

Norman Janusz Gajos
Sir Jan Englert
Lady Beata Ścibakówna
Madge Edyta Olszówka
Goeffrey Thornton Jacek Mikołajczak
Oxenby Karol Pocheć
Irene Michalina Łabacz

Production team:

  • director's assistantKarolina Matuszewska 
  • lighting technicians: Łukasz Obuch-Woszczatyński, Tomasz Księżak, Kacper Bobylak
    sound technicians: Marcin Kotwa, Maciej Rybicki
  • stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk
  • prompter: [Jolanta Szydłowska]


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