Their four

Known for her sharp tongue and sharp humor, Zapolska called this play “the tragedy of stupid people.” But “stupidity” is not a quality here, but a “condition of the heart” and a way of functioning, in which words lack reflection, and acts of love, because deeper feelings are displaced by selfishness.

On the stage we watch the familiar scheme: husband, wife and lover. A triangle that has long ceased to be a love story, and has become only a system of grievances, tensions and mutual disappointments. So we have a husband immersed in scientific work and a wife desperately looking for excitement, but at the center of the family turmoil stands someone else — a child who, with childish sincerity, is the only one who sees everything without illusions.

It is a kaleidoscope of ridiculousness and bitter recognitions—a world of grotesque bourgeois hypocrisy played out “in the circle of a household lamp”, with almost no witnesses. Synthesis of thoughtlessness between “loved ones”, that is, a family circus full of caricatured relationships and distorted values. Both funny and terrible, but also those in which each of us can see ourselves as if in a crooked mirror and - at someone else's expense - find the crumbs of our own weaknesses. “Their four” in Comedy is another meeting with Polish classics. Only “a classic in a new decoration”, telling the truth and surprisingly contemporary despite the passage of time - as in the case of the previously realized “Revenge” directed by Michał Zadara. This is not a sad lesson in morality, but a comedy that entertains — and at the same time mercilessly exposes what we prefer not to see on a daily basis.

Stage: Big Stage

A show especially recommended for those who want to see how comically we can err when we focus too much on ourselves.