Queen of Love

“The Queen of Love” is a modern morality and vivisection of family relationships. A story about the blind love of a mother for a son-murderer and the love of a daughter for a mother who suppresses the crime of her son. A story of loyalty, guilt, and moral courage — and of reckoning with life in the face of impending death. Is silence in the face of evil also a form of guilt? What do we lose when we pretend that nothing happened? And should a love that forgives everything also keep everything silent?

“Queen of Love”

[series: New Polish Dramaturgy]

premiere: 12.01.2026, TVP 1

Text: Sandra Szwarc

director: Monika Czajkowska

set design: Aleksandra Reda

Costumes: Zofia Komasa

music: Antoni Wojnar

Cinematography: Oleksandr Pozdnyakov

editing: Szymon Sabarański, Monika Czajkowska

Monika Czajkowska

Director, playwright, playwright. A graduate of the Film School in Łódź, the Faculty of Arts Liberales of the University of Warsaw and the Ivan Wyrypayev Theatre School.

Lecturer at the State Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź and at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw — branch in Białystok. Winner of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Award for the script and direction of the play “Come closer” and the 3rd Audience Award in the MONOTEATR #wdomu competition for the monodrama “Ofelia. The action (will not) be condemned.” Winner of the 34th Competition for Theatre Arts for Children and Youth and semi-finalist of the 17th Gdynia Dramaturgy Award. She is a laureate of the Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage — Culture in the Network, the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Young Poland, the Gdańsk Cultural Scholarship and the Scholarship for cultural creators of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

At the Television Theater she made her debut as the director of the play “The Queen of Love” (2026).

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.