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Dorota Masłowska
Director
Armin Petras
Set design
Annette Riedel
Costume design
Karoline Bierner
Dramaturgy
Andrea Koschwitz
Video
Niklas Ritter
Cast
Dschina
Hilke Altefrohne
Parcha
Andreas Pietschmann
Fahrer
Andreas Leupold
Frau
Cristin K�nig
Production
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Co-production
Wiener Festwochen, Festival THEATERFORMEN Braunschweig/ Hannover und Schauspielhaus Wien
Translated by
Olaf K�hl
Directing assistant
Dominic Friedel
Dramaturgy assistant
Paulina Neukampf
Set design assistant
Karoline Bierner
www.gorki.de
Two poor Polish speaking Romanians
Two poor Romanians, drugged by a miraculous substance into blissful oblivion, drift through Poland in the dead of night. The object of their desire, the capital Warsaw, is far away and apparently unreachable without seeking help. Parcha and Dschina, comfortable in their carelessness, wreak havoc in the ordered lives of small business people hoping to capitalize from the two strangers� helplessness. When the drugs begin to wear off, the poor Romanians metamorphose into a strange Polish-speaking couple inadvertently spending their first night together. This return of memory is the starting point for a dramatic adventure in which young dramatist Dorota Maslowska describes their attempts to escape reality as both full of delight as well as tragedy. The author, born in 1983, is considered the greatest young talent of Polish literature. She became known for her astonishing use of language, never copying youth slang, but expressing the emotions and thoughts of a new generation.
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