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Chamber Theatre in Bydgoszcz

Based on Albert Camus

Plague

Written and directed by: Wojciech Kościelniak (screenplay adapted by Wojciech Kościelniak based on the novel by Albert Camus)

Music: Mariusz Obijalski

Choreography: Mateusz Pietrzak

Set design: Mariusz Napierała

Costumes: Anna Adamek

Executive producer and second director: Katarzyna Witkowska

Lighting design: Tadeusz Trylski

Second assistant director and choreographer: Katarzyna Kłaczek

Vocal preparation: Paulina Zaborowska

Multimedia and visualizations: Zachariasz Jędrzejczyk and Veranika Siamionava

Premiere: March 27 and 28, 2026

Duration: approx. 160 min (including 1 break)

Cast:

Sara Lech (Doctor Bernarda Rieux), Julia Witulska (She), Katarzyna Chmara (Jeanne Tarrou), Katarzyna Kłaczek (Régine Rambert), Nikodem Bogdański (Józef Grand), Adrian Wiśniewski (Cotlard), Błażej Chorobiński (Judge Othon), Leszek Andrzej Czerwiński (Father Paneloux), Zozek Ofia Gołaj (Infdok), Michał Rybak (Michel), Filip Łach (Doctor Richard), Judyta Wenda (Mother), Witold Szulc (Spanish), Piotr Jankowski (Doctor Castel), Radosław Garncarek (Doctor Castel), Łukasz Lenart (Prefect), Dominik Ochociński (Prefect), Mateusz Pietrzz Angel of the Plague, Maria Salvinska (Angel of the Plague) Plagues)

Live music: piano: Kacper Kasprzak, Adam Lemańczyk; double bass: Grzegorz Nadolny, Antoni Olszewski; drums: Patryk Dolepski, Mateusz Krawczyk

A colourful musical story about the state of the world

“The Plague” by Albert Camus is one of the most important novels of the 20th century. The metaphor of a city overrun by a deadly disease and engulfed in plague gangrene is a crippling figure and a poignant message.

Wojciech Kościelniak, perhaps the most famous contemporary composer of musicals in Poland, reached for a text that may seem too dark to sing. However, the idea turns out to be extremely accurate, and the script - fantastic. Existential questions sound here in the form of songs, and dance expresses hope. Maybe it is music and singing that allow us to tell a better story of suffering, but also of hope for the future? We invite you to an unusual theatrical evening, during which not everything will turn out as we tried to imagine - this interpretation of “The Plague” seduces and moves!

“Because the musical 'Plague' is an interpretive matryoshka. Beautiful from the outside — musically, scenographically, in costumes, choreographically, in acting — but dazzling only when successive layers of text are discovered, symbols referring to the thoroughly contemporary world, diagnoses painfully accurate and emotions repressed even in front of those closest to them. (...) There are such performances that overwhelm and drive you into the chair. They captivate musically, actorily and lyrically to the point that one desperately tries to remember as much as possible or to return as soon as possible. “The plague” is one of them.”

Agnieszka Serlikowska on “Dzuma”

The partner of the premiere is the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The show is intended for viewers from the age of 15.

Content warnings: suicide attempt, alcohol, cigarettes, illness, death, bereavement, religion, physical violence, sexuality, screaming, possibility of close contact with actors.