Party time at Montownia

Following the success of Sławomir Mrożek's play Zabawa, the Montownia Theater is staging The Party, an English version of the play, on July 11, 12 and 13. The idea was the brainchild of the actors Adam Krawczuk, Rafał Rutkowski and Maciej Wierzbicki, who founded the Montownia Theater in 1995. The play was translated into English five years ago to be staged abroad.

The performers noticed that they could get their ideas across better while performing in English. "Despite being written by a Polish playwright, the play is universal. It's a very cosmopolitan black comedy filled out with lots of Monty Python-esqe humor, which is understood in every corner of the world," says Rutkowski, who acts in the play.

Like Mrożek's other plays, The Party is grounded in Polish reality and aims to generalize current social problems. The play follows three men who are looking for exciting ways to spend their free time. Extraordinarily, in their pursuit of entertainment, two of the men decide to kill the third man, and turn his funeral and funeral banquet into a celebration and a holiday.

Rutkowski says that his theater will put on more performances in English in the future. "There are a number of ex-pats living in Warsaw and they seem to live in a cultural desert. Apart from cinemas and clubs there's no theater for them," adds Rutkowski.

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