One goes through life meek as a lamb, while the other unabashedly seeks out attention. The two heroines of British playwright, Alan Bennett’s, parallel one-act plays are polar opposites of each other: a mousy office worker resigned to her uneventful life and a ruthless seeker of others’ shortcomings.
The play examines the lives of two lonely women — brilliantly played by Halina Łabonarska and Małgorzata Niemirska — who do not want to fade into obscurity. It is constructed out of two monologues (A Lady of Letters and A Woman of No Importance) extracted from Bennett’s Talking Heads series — a collection of twelve monologues presenting humorous and equally moving portraits of ordinary people.
Creative
director
Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz
translation
Małgorzata Wrzesińska
scenography, costumes
Jan Kozikowski
light engineer
Monika Sidor
screenings
Emilia Sadowska
music
Piotr Łabonarski