Opening Night: 9 November 2019 
Author: Maxim Gorky 
Title: Summerfolk
Original Title: Дачники
Translator: Stanisław Brucz
Director:
 Maciej Prus

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall 
Running time: 2 hours 20 min including one interval

 

Summerfolk

The bitter ironic question about role of today's intelligentsia.

Are they – as Gorky wrote – "a bunch of people without the ideals"? The unhappy, vain, disappointed ones, who lost their goals and dreams. "Intelligentsia, it is not us! We are something else. We are vacationers in our own country".

The compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich were used in this performance.


director: Maciej Prus
set design: Jagna Janicka
costume design: Martyna Kander
lighting design: Maciej Igielski
music arrangement: Małgorzata Małaszko 

Cast:

Bassov, lawyer Paweł Paprocki
Varvara Mikhailovna, Bassov's wife Dominika Kluźniak
Kaleria, Bassov's sister Anna Gryszkówna
Vlass, brother of Bassov's wife Mateusz Rusin
Suslov, engineer Krzysztof Stelmaszyk (as a guest actor from November 1, 2021)
Yulia Fillippovna, Suslov's wife Michalina Łabacz
Dudakov, doctor Arkadiusz Janiczek
Olga Alexeyevna, Dudakov's wife Edyta Olszówka
Shalimov, writer Piotr Grabowski
Ryumin Henryk Simon
Ryumin; Bit part actor of amateur theatre Paweł Brzeszcz
Maria Lvovna, doctor Beata Ścibakówna
Dvoetochie, Suslov's uncle Mariusz Benoit
Zamyslov, Bassov's assistant Karol Dziuba
Pustobaika, caretaker of summer resort Jacek Mikołajczak / Paweł Tołwiński
Kropilkin, janitor Grzegorz Kwiecień
Sasha, the Bassovs' maid Zuzanna Saporznikow
Mr. Semyonov, actor of amateur theatre Kamil Mrożek
I Actress of amateur theatre Joanna Kwiatkowska-Zduń
II Actress of amateur theatre (guest actress) Marzena Gorska (guest actor)
Lover, actor of amateur theatre Mateusz Kwiecień (guest actor)
Bit part actor of amateur theatre Łukasz Borkowski (guest actor)

Production team:

  • director's assistants: Anna Gryszkówna, Łukasz Borkowski
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  • sound technicians: Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski, Krzysztof Łukasz Stefan
  • stage manager: Adam Borkowski
  • prompter: Anna Leszczyńska



Licence for this stage production was granted by the Society of Authors – ZAiKS.

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