The man he is, everyone sees

Very high in the Himalayas is a unique hotel. Mountain refuge for stray migratory animals, sedentary species and domesticated creatures. The director of the hotel is Yeti, and the deputy director is his curious daughter.

The show is about adventures, but also about growing up, changes in the way of perceiving others, relationships with family and friends, the terms of which we have to constantly negotiate. This is, first and foremost, a story about empathy.

In a theatrical adaptation, the Yetich Hotel is “a mountain refuge for stray migratory animals and sedentary creatures.” Yetinka begins to ask her father difficult questions, and he wants to protect her daughter from a dangerous world. Yetinka, meanwhile, is getting older, she understands more and more, so her dad has to modify his way of looking at her. Their relationship also changes and begins to function on new principles. In search of answers to the questions that bother her, Yetinka embarks on a mountain expedition. She is accompanied by her friend Snake, followed by the intriguing Kawia (the guinea pig) and the very nervous, eager to fulfill the tasks entrusted to him, the Dog.

In the play, Yetinka and her companion animals experience adventures among mountain peaks and snowdrifts, but above all they learn to talk to each other and confront what is difficult for them.

“Man as he is, everyone sees”

[series: Young Spectator Scene]

Premiere at the New Theatre in Warsaw: 01.02.2025

Premiere at S. Żeromski Theatre in Kielce: 22.02.2025

Premiere at Teatr TV, TVP1:28.09.2025

Text: Marzena Matuszak

Adapted by: Tomasz Walesiak

Directed by: Katarzyna Minkowska

Set design and costumes: Marta Kodeniec, inspired by Grażyna Rigali's illustrations

Music: Wojciech Frycz

Lyrics: Kamil Malanicz

Choreography: Krystyna Lama Szydłowska

Television production: Józef Kowalewski

Editing: Michał Patecki

Katarzyna Minkowska

Born in 1992, a theater director, one of the leading representatives of directing of the young generation. She brings to the stage mainly prose and author's scripts inspired by her — from Kuncewiczowa to Orwell to Ottessa Moshfegh. Winner of the Polityka Passport for 2025 “for a theatre that is modern formally, carried out with momentum and engaging, with a psychotherapeutic spirit, but not devoid of a sense of humor and distance”. She made her debut at the Television Theatre in 2024 with the transfer of “The Foreigner” from the Polish Theatre in Poznań.

Full program and more information about the festival: https://festiwal-interpretacje.pl/

The performances of the Television Theater are organized as part of the 23rd National Festival of Directing Arts INTERPRETATIONS, organized by the St. Wyspiański Silesian Theater in Katowice, the City of Katowice and Katowice City of Gardens — Krystyna Bochenek Institute of Culture.