The publication of “The Spring to Come” in 1924 caused a storm of various comments. The writer was accused of promoting Bolshevism and pornography. This book became a reference point for many generations in the following decades, as it kept coming back in many discussions, especially after 1989 when the dream of a new “The Spring to Come” kept recurring.
We are coming back to this classic Polish novel after almost one hundred years, in order to look into the questions posed by Żeromski – regarding social justice, civil Poland, and most importantly, about the dreams of a new, better reality. We are doing this knowing that Cezary Baryka’s tumultuous adventures cannot represent the lives and challenges of modern activists, however, they can become an introduction to a discussion regarding the still ongoing cracks in Polish society, the war between Poland and Poland, and the huge disappointment with the state of our current reality on which right-wing populism thrives.
We are offering the audience a kind of a new, critical adaptation, to which we invited not only actors but also young activists and intellectuals.
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Warning: the performance uses videos with a stroboscope effect and stage smoke.