PLAYING WITH MONSTERS

iGRanie z Montroami is an opera with music by Mateusz Ryczek and libretto by Justyna Skoczek. The work is immersed in the night, literally and metaphorically, where the homely, evening silence turns into digital gloom, and the border between the child's bed and the computer monitor turns out to be very thin. In this opera, the real and virtual worlds are not opposed to each other — they intersect. The work does not moralize. The father is not a caricature of an addicted gamer, but a tender and fragile character, entangled in the escape mechanism, and the girls are not naive protagonists of the fairy tale, but represent two stages of maturation - childhood imagination and teenage rebellion.

In the visual layer, the spectacle breaks with the illustrative. Monsters are not costume monsters — they are born from movement, light, voice, and projection. The show is closer to the modern digital imagination than to the traditional fairy tale. Playing with Monsters is a spectacle about the transition — from childhood to adolescence, from myth to technology, from play to responsibility. This is a theater that trusts the young viewer and does not simplify the world. Instead of a fairy tale, it offers an experience—dark, beautiful, and disturbingly close.

Contemporary Opera Festival Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Co-financed from the funds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund — a state special purpose fund, as part of the program “Composer Orders”, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance

Project co-financed by the Municipality of Wrocław