Colleague Mel Gibson

On stage: Mirosław Neinert Voices: Krzysztof Cugowski, Ireneusz Załóg

Author: Tomasz Jachimek Directed by: Waldemar Patlewicz Screenplay: Tomasz Jachimek Light and sound: Sergiusz Brożek Premiere: December 15, 2007

Duration: approx. 90 minutes (without interruption)

Main prize for Colleague Mel Gibson at the 6th National Review of Contemporary Monodrama in Warsaw. Golden Mask 2008 for Mirosław Neinert for the role of Felix Rzepka.

Songwriter, satirist and lecturer Tomasz Jachimek wrote Mel Gibson's Colleague to move artists — actors whose ridiculousness he reveals to a wide audience with exemplary and disarming carelessness. Feliks Rzepka, shown in an unusual situation for the artist (interrogation at the police station) is an example of an “outstanding” actor who, from the heights of fame and popularity due to one decision of the director of the theater, falls to the very bottom of stage non-existence. In his testimony, intoxicated by the attention of the commissioner, he reveals the behind the scenes of the apogee of his fame, the splendors and shadows of his artistic life, his disbelief at the breakthrough in his career and the chaotic moves that this professional turn has pushed him to.

Mirosław Neinert, playing Rzepka, in a feeling of complete impunity, rips off the actors - the chałturniki, what for the Polish dollars they are willing to do and the Dotted Panties to sing and do striptease, he exposes the secrets of the personal life of artists and their families (who for the merits of patience and daily martyrdom should be punished immediately onized); critics also pluck their feathers - those who are favorable and favorable otherwise; the cut language of the actor does not spare even the sponsor of the show...