Opening Night: 2 March 2013
Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Title: The Anonymous Work
Original Title: Bezimienne dzieło
Director: Jan Englert

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 1 godz. 55 min, one interval

The Anonymous Work

director: Jan Englert
set designer: Andrzej Witkowski
musical arrangement: Rafał Kowalczyk 
konsultacja muzyczna, soundtrack: Mirosław Jastrzębski 
lighting designer: Jacqueline Sobiszewski 
scenes of duels and fights: Wiesław Chmieliński

The performance uses, among others music pieces: The Garden from the album Ende Neu released by Die Einstürzende Neubauten,
Kurayamino Variation from the album Clubbed To Death by Rob Dougan, extract from the album Music In Twelve Parts Coil, as well as the Either His, Or Yours from the album Gold Is The Metal Amon; both by Philip Glass and Esther's from the album Foley Room by Tobin.


Awards and Nominations:

2013 – nomination for the Warsaw Felix award in "the best supporting male role" category for Grzegorz Małecki for the role of Buffadero

Cast:

Dr Plasmodeus Blödestaug Włodzimierz Press (guest actor)
Plasmonick Blödestaug Marcin Hycnar
Rosa van der Blaast Patrycja Soliman
Klaudestyna de Montreuil Dominika Kluźniak / Paulina Korthals (from June 7, 2014)
Buffadero (Tzingar) Grzegorz Małecki
Colonel Count Manfred Giers Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Gravedigger Tomasz Sapryk
Joseph Leon Girtak Mateusz Rusin
Flowers Robert Jarociński
Duke Padoval de Grifuellhes Przemysław Stippa
Duchess Barbara Beata Ścibakówna
Baroness Lidia Ragnok Anna Ułas
Maidservant of Rosa van der Blaast Milena Suszyńska
Revolutionist Joanna Kwiatkowska-Zduń
Revolutionists (guest actors) Marzena GorskaGrażyna KopećKlaudiusz KaufmannKamil KuldaRobert KuraśWojciech MichalakAdam MolakSzymon NowakKsawery SzlenkierAdrian WiśniewskiGrzegorz WośPrzemysław Wyszyński

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Anna Turowiec
  • set designer's assistants: Elwira Szyszka, Anita Trzaskowska 
  • lighting technicians: Krzysztof Stefan, Zbigniew Szulim
  • sound technicians: Rafał Barański, Mariusz Maszewski
    video projectionMariusz Chałubek, Paweł Woźniak 

  • stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk
  • prompter: Jolanta Szydłowska

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