Paweł Świątek

Florence, the reign of the Medici family. The apex of painting, but also time of plague and social unrest. Botticelli, favoured by the rulers, was commissioned to paint a portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici's wife. And thus ‘The Birth of Venus’ comes into being, with a significant contribution of Botticelli’s gifted young student – Leonardo da Vinci. The two men develop a feeling for each other...

An adaptation of Dorota Masłowska's latest novel premieres on the stage of the Słowacki Theatre!

It will be an urban performance about FOMO (fear of missing out) of the residents of modern metropolises. It’ll tell personal stories about the disorientation of modern people, entangled in the reality of simple and one-dimensional messages, so incompatible with the desired image of the modernist European, who is concerned with ecology, progressive, and thinks seriously about the future of the universe. It will be a story about existential loneliness in a world where relationships with other people remain the only reality, although every contact makes you bleed. A story about protagonists who crave to be heard, while simultaneously panicking that they don't really have anything to say.

‘Magic Wound’ will also be a play that delicately diagnoses the awkwardness of functioning in the form of a therapy of our collective fears – more or less acknowledged. So once again we will make it about language – though this time about the language of love.