Empty city

Dejan Dukovski

There's a war going on. In a deserted city, two soldiers of enemy armies come upon each other - as it turns out, native brothers. They haven't seen each other in years. They have one last night before the onslaught of troops will sweep the city off the face of the earth in the morning. They will wander through dilapidated buildings and streets to recall, with nostalgia, regret, but also humor, the good and bad moments of such a ridiculously ending life, and thus rediscover brotherly and human understanding. “Empty City” is existential grotesque in the shadow of wartime absurdity. The protagonists of the acting duodrama, brothers Gero (Mateusz Krzyk) and Gore (Bartosz Bulanda), after years of separation as deserters from hostile armies meet for one night on no man's land just before a planned attack on the deserted city. They have a few hours to - fueled by herbs, alcohol and mushrooms - to make a journey into the past in search of the truth about themselves and mutual understanding.Grzegorz Żurawinski

Dejan Dukovski (born 1969) is the most famous Macedonian playwright and screenwriter today, translated into many languages, staged on more than one hundred stages around the world. According to his most famous play “The Barrel of Gunpowder” (1994), also performed in Poland, Serbian director Goran Paskaljević made a high-profile feature film, which won, among others, the FIPRESCI Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics at the Venice Film Festival.

Diploma performance of a directing student of the Academy of Theatre

The play is co-produced by the Modrzejewska Theatre in Legnica and the Theatre Academy in Warsaw from the funds of the Start-up Fund