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She Was a Friend of Someone Else

11.4-12.4

Genre

  • Contemporary Theatre

Language

English, Polish

Age recommendation

14+
When protest turns to exhaustion, and silence
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  • Production

    NOWY TEATR & CAMPO

  • Venue

    &Louhi, Espoo Cultural Centre

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  • Duration

    1 h, no intermission

  • Language

    English, some Polish

  • Surtitles

    Finnish and English on the stage

  • Notes

    Strobes

Person is sitting on the floor in front of a big silver screen. A big eye is projected onto the screen.

About

What others are saying

"This delicately structured, understated production plays with questions of truth, pretence and shame."Helen Meany / The Irish Times
"With a powerful dramaturgy and a minimalist direction, Polish theatre-maker Gosia Wdowik explores the link between burnout and activism."Francesco Chiaro & Danja Burchard / i.c.a.p.
"Wdowik invites us into a sluggish, dense and torpid world made of spilled glasses, heavy limbs and even heavier bedcovers in which everything is literally fuming with exhaustion."Fabrizio Migliorati / Persinsala Teatro
Person lies on a mattress face down, with a screen portraying a picture of numerous eyes above them.

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Concept, text & direction

Gosia Wdowik

Performers

Oneka von Schrader, Gosia Wdowik, Jaśmina Polak

Visuals & creative technology

Jimmy Grimma

Set design

Dominika Olszowy & Tomasz Mróz

Light design

Aleksandr Prowaliński

Sound design

Jakub Ziołek

Pricing

  • Standard28 €
  • Small group (4+)26 €
  • Pensioner25 €
  • Groups (20+)25 €
  • Student, unemployed, under 2518 €
  • Theatre professionals (10 days before)18 €

Gosia Wdowik

Gosia Wdowik (°1988, she/her) is a theatre maker and active member of GILDIA, The Union of Polish Theatre Makers. Her heart is based in Poland, but her imagination is always somewhere else. During her Master Studies at DAS Theatre (2020-2022), she worked with the topic of burnout and explored the space between exhaustion and agency by implementing methods from activism into her artistic practice. Her main question was: how to create both theatre and change from a place of exhaustion? In May 2023, her graduation work (DAS Theatre) She was a friend of someone else premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.

In her recent performance Shame (NOWY TEATR, Warsaw) she explored social shame connected with the working-class origins in her own family, over three generations of women.