Danuta W. ( Teatral Sławnik – next episode)

liberte.pl 1 week ago

In the November issue of Sławnik, erstwhile we think about regaining independency and what truly sustains it all day, the performance "Danuta W." This show shows patriotism silent, homely, non-transparent: the 1 who does not talk from the balconies, but continues in everyday life. Played all day at the Polonia Theatre, I saw him years ago in Poznań – and this evidence remained with me until today.

Isn't it a performance that perfectly shows that past is not just made up of loud speeches and large names? Isn't it a spectacle about patriotism? Don't those who stand a small off the side, a small in the shade, but without them, everything would fall apart like a home of cards? It is in this silence, in the background of large events, that real strength is born... The strength of everyday life, work and silent courage, which is not seen in cameras, and which actually keeps the planet upright... A force that does not shout – yet it continues erstwhile another voices are silent. The power of silent heroism that doesn't request applause due to the fact that it carries the burden of a daily...

I saw this performance a decade ago, surviving in Poznań. And although it has been so many years since then, to this day I remember not only the acting game, but besides the detail, which does not seem to substance – a part of apple pastry baked by Krystyna Janda (yes, yes... during the performance Krystyna Janda shares his baking, which he prepares during the monologue). It smelled like warmth, home, everyday. Of course, it wasn't the cake that was most important, but this smell, floating above the phase and the audience, became part of the experience. Isn't it beautiful that theatre can not only affect emotions and intellect, but besides affect our senses? Sensu stricto – the aroma of freshly baked apple pie, the sense of largo – is simply a tasty art that stays in memory for a long time and makes you want to experience it again...

And the communicative itself? Not about Lech Wales, due to the fact that his function in past we all know and repeat... This performance allows you to look at individual else – Danuta Wałęsa. A female who looked from the side at the communicative that was going on in her own home... Isn't it more hard than to participate in events directly? Wait, keep quiet, worry, and at the same time rise children, keep everyday in check? How much strength, how much courage does specified a life require, where each day is both average and unusual?

"Danuta W." is simply a tribute to women who appear to be standing on the side but without them the planet would not move... This is simply a communicative of silent heroism – not on banners, not in textbooks, but in everyday life, in care, in love. And without this silent presence, even the biggest scrapes would make no sense. How frequently do we forget that past is besides those ‘invisible hands’ that prepare dinners, calm the children, hold the home erstwhile the full planet falls apart? She's talking, in any way, about the women who put their necks... Alinie Pieńkowska, Henryka Krzywonos, Ewa Ossowska and Annie Walentynowicz... They're known names, but are they truly appreciated? How many more women who have acted on committees, printers, strikes have never been mentioned?

This performance reminds us that Solidarity is not only Lech Walesa and a group of male leaders. They are besides women – frequently marginalized, pushed into the shadows, and yet without them there would be no social strength. Who held the houses while the men were interned? Who organized food, care, who risked it, carrying flyers and paper? Were they not the silent pillars of the full movement?

I remember sitting in the audience, I had the impression that Janda was besides talking about all the women who, somewhere in the province, in the blocks, in tiny apartments, lived with past in the background... They besides waited, worried, loved, raised. Are they not co-creators of what we call freedom today? This performance opens the eyes that Danuta Wałęsa is simply a symbol of many another women who have never seen a scene, and without them Poland would look different...

And now I think that this performance could besides apply to women from the 20th inter-war period and those who fought for independency – the 1 from 11 November. Irena Kosmowska (people's education, co-creation of statehood), Maria Grzegorzewski (nowative peculiar education), Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska (economicist, senator, workers' rights), Gabriela Balicka-Iwanowska (trained and MP), Jadwiga Dziubińska (agricultural education) or Aleksandra Piłsudska (backroom and aid organisation). But besides legionaries and conspirators: Maria Wittek, Wanda Gertz, Aleksandra Zagórska and tens of paramedics, couriers, teachers, officials – these "silent foundations" Independent, without which November would only be a date, not a surviving commitment.

“Danuta W.” is simply a tribute to women. It gives them a voice and a place on stage. And he teaches respect – that we should not look at past only with the eyes of ‘leaders’, but besides with the eyes of those who in everyday life and silence give strength to fight.

And that's why it's worth watching this show, not just due to Janda, but besides due to itself. due to the fact that possibly this is the task of the theatre – that erstwhile we look at another people's stories, we learn to ask about our own. And so that we can see those who stand next to us – frequently in silence – without whom our lives would have no meaning...

Performance: Danuta W.

Polonia Theatre

Authors: Danuta Wałęsa, Piotr Adamowicz

Adaptation and execution: Sophia Janda

Directed by Janusz Zaorski

Light: Andrzej Wolf

Screenplay: Sophia Janda

Stage designer assistant: Gretel

Executive producer: Ewa Ratkowska

Production and preparation of movie material:

Directed by Janusz Zaorski

Photos, camera operator: Andrzej Wolf