OSKAR AND THE ROSE, directed by Lech Mackiewicz

A stage adaptation of one of the most beautiful and moving stories of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. Oscar and the Lady Rose is a story about a boy who, faced with the inevitable, learns to live life to the fullest, and about a woman who helps him understand what hope, faith and reconciliation are.

The play, directed by Lech Mackiewicz, is more than a touching story — it is a journey into the inner self. These are questions that are hard to find answers to: How to come to terms with the inevitable? Do we have an impact on our own lives? Who is responsible for our mortality?

As the director says: “Trying to tame the untamed is the best answer to the question of what Oscar and Mrs. Rose are about.” It's a story about disagreeing with the irreversible, about rebellion, hope, and faith — which we say can work miracles.

Death is part of life, but is it really the end? Oscar believed it wasn't. And Mrs. Rose... we don't know yet.

“Why do I want, do we want, to face this text? For there is in me, in us, a disagreement with what is irreversible and in my opinion unjust. One day we will be missing. Short ball. The end? Not necessarily. We know so little about the miracle of existence that it would be downright unreasonable to speak with full conviction about the absolutes of time and duration. There are different forms of being. I'm not going to dwell on the unknown. But I can—we can—try to make the most of what is given and known to us. Time. Our time here. Try to understand our existence from our perspective. Use the time to live and tame what seems unmanageable. Death. That's how I see it.” Lech Mackiewicz