Wstyd (Shame)
Gosia Wdowik
Warsaw
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Wstyd (Shame)
Gosia Wdowik
Warsaw
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What are people ashamed of? And why are they ashamed at all? In the play ‘Wstyd’ (Shame) by Polish theater director Gosia Wdowik, three generations of women from one family are confronted with questions about social shame and how this is passed on from one generation to the next. The captivating production tells an intimate story about mothers and daughters who love and talk to each other, even if they don’t always fully understand each other. Based on personal experiences, Gosia Wdowik explores how shame promotes and maintains social inequality. Shame manifests itself the moment people become visible, against their will and unprepared. Who has the privilege to speak out about weakness and shame? And who or what do these women sacrifice to free themselves from socially conditioned shame?
Audience talk on 1.7. after the performance
Language: English
Choreographic response by Young Worlds Club on 2.7. at 17:30
Photo: ©Maurycy Stankiewicz
Videotrailer via Youtube.
About the Artist(s)
Gosia Wdowik is a theater maker and president of the Union of Polish Theater Directors. She studied Theater Directing in Warsaw and graduated from DAS Theatre in Amsterdam. With her plays ‘Fear’, ‘Anger’ and ‘Shame’, Wdowik has devised a trilogy about how emotions are represented on stage for a series of Warsaw theaters. She is currently exploring the space between exhaustion and agency from a feminist perspective. Together with the K.A.U. kollective, she has created performances for the SpielArt Festival in Munich, Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Sophiensæle in Berlin.