Polish Premiere: 5 March 2009
Author: Pierre de Marivaux
Title: Umowa, czyli Łajdak ukarany
Original Title: La Fausse Suivante, ou le Fourbe puni
Translator: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Director: Jacques Lassalle

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 3 hours, one interval

The False Servant

director: Jacques Lassalle
associate director: Edward Wojtaszek
set design: Dorota Kołodyńska
music: Jacek Ostaszewski
lighting design: Mirosław Poznański

Cast:

The Countess Małgorzata Kożuchowska
Lélio Grzegorz Małecki
The Knight Wiktoria Gorodeckaja
Trivelin Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Arlequin Karol Pocheć
Frontin Jerzy Łapiński

Divertimentos:

The Newlywed Couple Lidia Sadowa (guest actress) / Dorota Rubin (guest actress), Grzegorz Kwiecień / Jakub Wieczorek (guest actor) Witnesses Izabela Gwizdak (guest actress) / Irena Sierakowska (guest actress), Łukasz Mąka (guest actor) / Jędrzej Taranek (guest actor)
Old Man Zbigniew Bogdański (guest actor)
Children ***

Music band:
The first lined-up: Janusz Prusinowski (violin, singing), Agata Harz (singing), Michał Żak (flute, shawm), Piotr Zgorzelski (basses), Piotr Piszczatowski (drum)
The second lined-up: Maciej Filipczuk (violin), Olga Stopińska (singing), Remigiusz Mazur-Hanaj (drum, singing), Paweł Iwaszkiewicz (shawm, flute), Katarzyna Delatur / Daniel Delatur (basses)
Singers: Justyna Stępień (Warsaw Chamber Opera) – soprano, Wojciech Parchem (Warsaw Chamber Opera) – tenor / Rafał Grozdew – tenor, Karol Bartosiński (Warsaw Chamber Opera) – countertenor / Jakub Burzyński – countertenor
Instrumentalists: Anna Sikorzak-Olek / Agnieszka Bemowska (harp), Marek Jankowski / Jakub Kościukiewicz (cello)

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Philippe Chauvin
  • set designer's assistants: Dorota Chojecka, Anita Trzaskowska
  • lighting technicians: Roman Bartyś Zbigniew, Szulim
  • sound technicians: Rafał Barański, Mariusz Maszewski
  • stage director: Ewa Dworecka
  • prompter: Jolanta Szydłowska

In Poland, the author is represented by ADiT.

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