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Monika Milewska AUThOR

(born 1972) Playwright, poet, essayist and translator. She graduated from the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, where she received her doctorate in 2000.

She is also a graduate of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the École des Hautes Études

en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2002-2008, she was assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Currently assis-

tant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Gdańsk. Author of Vinegar and Tears: Terror of the Great French Revolution as a Traumatic Experience (nominated for the Nike and the Paszport Polityki awards), and Gods in Power:

From Alexander the Great to Kim Jong Il. She published a magical realist novel about contemporary Polish history entitled A Kite Made of Concrete. Her playwriting debut was

Savanarola, written in high school, published by Dialog magazine and performed by Polish Radio Theater. She writes plays for children and adults and has published three volumes

of poetry. Awarded at over twenty poetry and dramaturgy competitions, including the Red Rose, Warsaw Literary Days and the Competition for Plays for Children and Young Adults

organized by the Children’s Art Center in Poznań. In 2015, she won the Grand Prix at the 15th Festival of Polish Radio and Television Theater DWA TEATRY in Sopot

for the radio play Journey to the Moon. Falowiec won the Best Screenplay award at the 2019 TEATROTEKA FEST.

Jakub Pączek DIRECTOR

(born 1984) Film director, graduate of film direction at the Department of Radio and Television, University of Silesia in Katowice, and of Church History at the Pontifical

Academy of Theology in Krakow; also studied Art History.Wrote and directed a number of short films including Pralka (Best Short Film at the Festival

of Comedy Films in Lubomierz 2009 and Best Student Etude at TVP Kultura’s KULT OFF KINO festival); Najlepsze kąski na wagonach (awarded at the Railway Film Festival, Austria); Strona A (Best Etude – KAMERA AKCJA Łódź festival), and Rolls of Identity – a one-minute

documentary on how toilet paper shapes culture (awarded in Brazil, Croatia, Canada, Slovakia and the USA, among others). His thirty-minute feature debut, The 128th Rat,

won the TVP S.A. prize at the 53rd Krakow Film Festival. 2017 saw the premiere of his first full-length feature film, Chain Reaction. Co-wrote and directed the play Reytan.

Druga strona drzwi for TV Theater. (Award for author’s debut at the 2019 Dwa Teatry – Sopot festival). Falowiec won the Critics

and Journalists Award at the Teatroteka Fest Festival 2019.

Jacek Kędzierski DIRECTOR OF PhOTOgRAPhY

(born 1987) He graduated in cinematography from the Department of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in 2011. He represented his university at the Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2010 with the étude Afterparty. Has shot short feature and documentary

films, television mini-series and promotional films. Director of photography on award-winning films including: Jakub Pączek’s short The 128th Rat,

and Paweł Wysoczański’s feature-length documentary Jurek.

CAST: Janusz Chabior, Marta Malikowska, Andrzej Mastalerz, Grzegorz Mikołajczyk, Łukasz Simlat, Magdalena Grąziowska, Mariusz Jakus

DIRECTOR: Jakub Pączek DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jacek Kędzierski PRODUCTION DESIGN: Agnieszka Bąk COSTUMES: Karolina Bystrowska EDITING: Paweł Laskowski MUSIC: Piotr Maciejewski SOUND: Michał Robaczewski, Aleksandra Pniak, Aleksander Musiałowski, PRODUCTION MANAGER: Paweł MantorskiPROGRAM COUNCIL: Zenon Butkiewicz, Krzysztof Domagalik, Maciej WojtyszkoPRODUCER: Włodzimierz Niderhaus

Running time: 42’Year of production: 2018

Monika Milewska

The MachIne for LIvIng In /FALOWIEC/

The Falowiec is a residential block of flats in Gdańsk, one of the longest in the world. Intended to showcase the modern architecture of People’s Poland, it has since become a nightmarish memento of that period.The play’s protagonist is the architect who designed the Falowiec (a character not based on a real person). Left by his wife, who has moved to West Germany with their two daughters, he is spending his summer holiday alone in his flat in the oldest part of the building. One day, having nothing better to do, he goes for a walk along the twisting paths of this residential warren. He is amazed to discover that time in the Falowiec can stop and speed up at random, because “by curving space, [he has] managed to curve time as well.” The architect travels to the future and listens to his neighbors complain about the building he designed. Along the way he witnesses the most important events of the forty years that have passed between 1975—the year it is in his flat—and the present day. The play was awarded a special mention at the ZAiKS Authors’ Association and WFDiF playwriting competition for TEATROTEKA, 2016.

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OF THE REPUBLICOF POLAND

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Teatroteka is a series of film adaptations of work by young Polish playwrights, produced by Documentary and Feature Film Studios (WFDiF), Poland’s largest state-owned film production company.

Teatroteka represents a new way of thinking about adaptations of theatrical works, in both the artistic and the production contexts. The films are created by young artists, often making their débuts. With the benefit of the studio’s facilities and technical support they have the opportunity to produce intriguing and innovative work.

The idea of the project is to use the poten- tial of film technology to bring to the screen the best in young Polish drama: contempo- rary works, often written in a “post-dramatic” form, differing in their style and conventions from classical drama.

Over the past 15 years, a new generation of authors writing for the stage has emerged in Poland. They have created their own original language, means of expression and form, enriching contemporary drama by addressing issues relevant for young people, and their perspective on the world. Young Polish playwrights deserve to be promoted, so as to reach a broader audi-ence. This is the main goal of the project.

Teatroteka is also a space for directors of the younger generation, who, despite having significant achievements in theatre, have thus far lacked opportunities to create their own original audio-visual works.

The innovative formula and high artistic quality of the series is established and

maintained by producer Włodzimierz Niderhaus and Teatroteka’s Program Council, whose members include Zenon Butkiewicz, Krzysztof Domagalik, and Maciej Wojtyszko.

Teatroteka’s screen adaptations are achieving recognition at international festivals, notably the Houston International Film Festival where, in the past three years, Teatroteka produ- ctions have received Platinum, Silver and Gold Remis. Another huge success was the Grand Prix at Two Theatres: Sopot 2015 and a range of other awards at this festival for Teatroteka productions. Additionally, Teatroteka series have been recognized by Teatr magazine as the most important new development in the field of theatre adaptations in Poland.

Teatroteka performances are screened in Poland and around the world and since 2017, a dedicated festival Teatroteka Fest presents the latest productions created as part of the annual Teatroteka series. All of these initiatives are quite popular and are appreciated by the audience.

Between 2013 and 2018, forty-five original productions were created for the Teatroteka series. This boxed set, which contains ten plays, is the fourth volume in the series, with previous box sets being issued in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

The Teatroteka series is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

More information at www.wfdif.pl