Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Experience

The play “Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Experience” is a moving monodrama performed by Agnieszka Przepiórska, which instead of a dry juxtaposition of historical facts, offers an emotional portrait of an outstanding Nobel laureate. The creators — director Justyna Łagowska and author of the text Piotr Rowicki — give up building another monument, focusing on the human dimension of Mary's life. The story takes the viewer through the amplitude of the heroine's fate: from her youthful years in Poland under the occupation and great scientific successes in Paris, to the painful loss of her husband, mourning and the struggle with depression.

The show's key theme is courage and the right to self-determination in a male-dominated world. The show portrays Skłodowska-Curie as the woman who was the first to blaze trails — both at universities and in everyday life — paying a high price for it. It is a manifesto of female genius and determination embedded in the herstoria trend, which remains relevant to this day. The production is another installment of the collaboration between Przepiórska and Rowicki, known for restoring the memory of extraordinary women in a modern and deeply human way.

Polish premiere of the play: 19.06.2026, Teatr Stary in Lublin Warsaw premiere of the play: 9.10.2026, Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw

guest performance as part of the Heroes' Festival organized by the House of Encounters with History

Justyna Łagowska — set designer, costume designer, theatre director, lighting director. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Active since 1993, her first performances by Jan Klata were the most sought-after stage designers: Wałbrzych's “Revizor” (2003) and Wrocław's “The Vatican Dungeon” (2004). Until 2007, she worked exclusively with this director, defining the visual side of his groundbreaking productions for Polish theatre, later also with Wojtek Klemman, Wiktor Rubin and Remigiusz Brzyk. She co-created the costume, light direction and set design of the show by Nikolai Kolada, Paweł Łysak, Marek Fiedor, Maciej Wojtyszko. In 2018, she was awarded for the costumes for the play “The Wedding” directed by Jan Klata at the 43rd Opole Theatrical Confrontation and at the II Festival of Scenography and Costumes “Scene under Construction” in Lublin. She made her directorial debut in 2015 with Michał Kmiecik's “Alice” at the Fredry Theatre in Gniezno, and staged “Memory of Rutka” by the same author in Będzin (2017). Her next directorial work is “Balladyna. Internal War” in Bydgoszcz (2018) and “Monachomachia” in Krakow's Nowy Proxima Theatre (2021). She is the author of the concept and direction of the exhibition, which can be seen in the foyer of the Old Theatre in Lublin. In Teatr Stary she also collaborated on the monodrama “LEAR” (2020).

Agnieszka Przepiórska — theatre actress (associated with the Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw), film and TV series, educator, producer, curator of the CarPediem festival. For 10 years she has been creating a biographical theater, which she calls “bioteatru” — the performances from this series are artistically and theatrically processed biographies of women, their scripts were created on the basis of recognized book publications. The actress played the role of Zuzanna Ginczanka (“Ginczanka. The recipe for simplicity of life”, 2020) and Simona Kossak (“Simona K. Calling in the Wilderness”, 2020). Her role as Barbara Sadowska in the play “In May You Don't Die” (2023, prod. DSH) was honored by the monthly magazine “Teatr” with the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Award for the best female acting performance in the 2022/23 season. Recently, she performed as Wisława Szymborska in the play “Szymborska. Dots, commas, cigarettes” (2023) and Anna Walentynowicz in the play “My Name Is Anna Walentynowicz” (2023, prod. DSH, Łaznia Nowa Theater). For the creation of Irenka K. in the monodrama “Saved” directed by Mai Kleczewska (2024, prod. DSH) was nominated in the O! Shining Onet and the City of Warsaw and received the title of best actress at the 31st International Festival of Pleasant and Unpleasant Arts.

Piotr Rowicki — playwright. He graduated in history at the University of Bialystok. In 2008 he made his debut with the play “Przylgnięcie” at the Drama Laboratory in Warsaw. Winner of many awards and distinctions, including, among others, a two-time winner of the competition for Polish contemporary art “Metaphors of Reality” organized by the Polish Theater in Poznań. Author of several dozen plays, including: “Painted Boy”, “Mothers” “And there will be Christmas”, “Infidels”, “Piszczyk”, “Dad does not return” “White power, black memory”, “Ćesky Diplom”, “So that there are no traces”, “Kings of shooters”, “Insubordinate”, “To Kill the President”, “Ginczanka. The recipe for the simplicity of life”, “Simon K. Calling in the Wilderness”, “Listen to Your Heart”, “Freak”, “You Don't Die in May”, “Szymborska. Dots, commas, cigarettes”, “Saved”.