Saved

"SAVED," directed by Maja Kleczewska, is Agnieszka Przepiórska's latest monodrama and one of the first to offer a voice to the victims of the pacification of the Ochota district during the Warsaw Uprising. Drawing on snippets of memoirs and diaries from witnesses and victims, screenwriter Piotr Rowicki weaves the story of Irena K., revealing a glimpse of the many crimes committed in 1944 by the RONA SS units, composed primarily of deserters who had escaped from the Red Army. However, the play is not just a story about the Zieleniak transit camp, but a universal tale of women who experienced wartime rape. A story relevant to every geographical location where warfare is taking place and rape is used as a weapon.

Irena K. from Opaczewska Street was 12 years old when, in August 1944, SS RONA units appeared in the Warsaw Uprising, herding the civilian population of Ochota into the Zieleniak. At night, drunken soldiers pulled young and old women, little girls, and expectant mothers from the crowds and raped them en masse. Many were brutally murdered. Irena managed to survive. For eighty years, her memory faded, but on the day of the unveiling of the monument "in honor of the murdered," everything came back to her. It was night again on the Zieleniak, the screams of girls and women whom no one could save. She heard her own muffled voice again, and then, suddenly, she began to say aloud: "I had a white ribbon in my hair then..."

Awards:

• Nagroda im. C. K. Norwida w kategorii teatr dla Agnieszki Przepiórskiej.
• Nagroda XXIII edycji festiwalu „Rzeczywistości Przedstawionej” dla Agnieszki Przepiórskiej za rolę Ireny K.
• Nagrodę za wizualizacje wykorzystane w spektaklu otrzymuje Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
• Nagroda Jury Młodych XXIII edycji festiwalu „Rzeczywistości Przedstawionej” dla Agnieszki Przepiórskiej za niesamowitą wiarygodność sceniczną w spektaklu.
• Nagroda Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego w kategorii „TEATR” dla Agnieszki Przepiórskiej.