Nagle, ostatniego lata | Tennessee Williams

Michał Borczuch

It’s late afternoon at the end of summer or the beginning of autumn...

Premiere: 06.06.2025 Main Hall Tickets: 80/50 PLN
 Play duration: 1 hour 50 minutes

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It’s late afternoon at the end of summer or the beginning of autumn...

Premiere: 06.06.2025 Main Hall Tickets: 80/50 PLN
 Play duration: 1 hour 50 minutes

Upcoming dates

“It is late afternoon at the end of summer or the beginning of autumn. The windows of the interior open onto a fantastical garden, resembling more a tropical jungle or a prehistoric forest from the era of giant ferns, when living creatures still had fins instead of legs and scales instead of skin. The jungle is dominated by vivid colors, especially now as it steams after the rain. Huge flowers on the trees look like organs torn from a body, glistening with fresh, uncoagulated blood. From the garden come unpleasant cries, hisses, rustles, and cracks, as if it were inhabited by beasts, snakes, and birds – all wild and dangerous.”

This is how the opening stage directions of Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams begin. In one of his lesser-known texts, the American theatre classic constructs an artificial space where psychological conflicts and human desires gather a force capable of turning reality upside down and redefining the fundamental rules of human relationships.

Based on a new translation by Jacek Poniedziałek, Michał Borczuch’s production brings together portraits of three women and three men, who—during a single afternoon in an eccentric residence—begin to unravel the mysterious death of the poet Sebastian Venable. In this family confrontation over an inheritance, characters clash in a battle not only for money but also for desire, utter despair, and survival. Emerging from the mist is the wounded and hypersensitive Mrs. Venable, who meets the long-absent Catherine, temporarily released from a psychiatric hospital and carrying a secret she must reveal and understand, along with her mother, Mrs. Holly, who is reliving various versions of her life. The family-institutional drama also includes Felicity, a hospital attendant; George considered the best-looking in the family and dreaming of a world without work; and the mysterious, seductive lobotomy specialist Dr. Cukrowicz.

Performed today, this text from the era of star-studded cinema can suddenly malfunction and begin to act on stage as a ghostly spectacle grounded in current dramas and confessions. What does lobotomy mean today? Has it evolved into something else? What do the times of brain surgery force us to think about? Can desire become the foundation of a new order?

  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Aleksanrda Ołdak
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz
  • Maurycy Stankiewicz

Cast

Guest cast

  • Hubert Miłkowski
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Information

Translation: Jacek Poniedziałek, Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Direction: Michał Borczuch
Dramaturgy: Mateusz Górniak
Film Direction: Robert Mleczko 
Set and Costume Design: Dorota Nawrot
Music: Bartosz Dziadosz
Lighting Design: Robert Mleczko
Make-up: Monika Kaleta
Cast: Bartosz Bielenia, Magdalena Cielecka, Bartosz Gelner, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Hiroaki Murakami, Ewelina Pankowska
Stage Manager: Łukasz Jóźków
Assistant Director: Michał Jan Meller
Producers: Angelika Mizińska, Patrycja Nosiadek
Scenography & Stagecraft Producer: Saskia Hellmann
Graphic Design: Renata Motyka
Photo: Zuza Krajewska seria IMAGO series: Adrian in the Net, 2017

 

 

The performance featured excerpts from the following musical works:

Franz Schubert – Allegro ma non troppo

Barry Alan Gibb, Maurice Ernest Gibb, Robin Hugh Gibb – Island in the Stream

The performance was staged under an agreement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

The license for the use of the works was granted by the Society of Authors ZAiKS.

Media

Interview by Anna Sańczuk for Vogue Polska Stars of Nowy Teatr Perform in “Suddenly, Last Summer”

Interview by Sandra Zakrzewska for Wysokie Obcasy Family Therapy on Stage at Nowy Teatr: “It’s a Story of Two Clashing Worldviews”

KMAG Tennessee Williams at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw. Premiere of “Suddenly, Last Summer” Directed by Michał Borczuch

Interview by Jagoda Gawliczek for Going More Tennessee Williams Comes to Nowy Teatr. It Will Be Wild and Dangerous

DUMA MICHAŁ BORCZUCH x NOWY TEATR

Interview by Odeta Moro for Onet Rano Ewelina Pankowska, Actress at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, on Working on the Premiere

Interview by Katarzyna Janowska for Onet Rezerwacja Michał Borczuch and Magdalena Cielecka in “Rezerwacja”: “I’m Playing a Mature Woman. Finally!”

Maria Dworzecka’s review for Theatre for All Rituals 

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September 26

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Nagle, ostatniego lata | Tennessee Williams

Michał Borczuch
Theater / Age 16+

September 27

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Nagle, ostatniego lata | Tennessee Williams

Michał Borczuch
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September 28

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Nagle, ostatniego lata | Tennessee Williams

Michał Borczuch
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