Sex Education

Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin, Poland

Saturday
May 20th, 2023  | 6 p.m.
Radost Theatre – Main stage

Genre: Foreign Drama, Child Audience, Unisex
Runtime: 2 hours, no interval

Czech surtitles

Suitable for young people aged above 15 years.

Immediately after the performance, we would like to invite the audience to a discussion with the performers and production team. The discussion will be conducted in the foyer of the theatre.

Sex Education

Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin, Poland

Saturday
May 20th, 2023  | 6 p.m.
Radost Theatre – Main stage

Genre: Foreign Drama, Child Audience, Unisex
Runtime: 2 hours, no interval

Czech surtitles

Suitable for young people aged above 15 years.

Immediately after the performance, we would like to invite the audience to a discussion with the performers and production team. The discussion will be conducted in the foyer of the theatre.

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Ticket discounts valid at the National Theatre Brno can be applied to ticket purchases. The discount for pensioners is 30%. The discount for disabled persons and students is 50%.

Discounts are not cumulative.

BUY TICKETS

Possibility to get a quantity festival discount -25%.

Ticket discounts valid at the National Theatre Brno can be applied to ticket purchases. The discount for pensioners is 30%. The discount for disabled persons and students is 50%.

Discounts are not cumulative.

Reproductive organs, physiological changes during pubescence, autoeroticism, petting, sex and sexuality, contraception, sexually transmissible diseases… Taming and approaching the fierce whirlwinds of this variety of topics in a dynamic, a thought-out and a very witty manner, Sex Education puts on stage characters such as sperm cells, a clitoris and an egg. Yet it’s the psyche and emotions that play the starring roles in this catchy and peculiar vaudeville.
It’s hard doing things for the first time. In particular when there is nothing to show you the way. Your first steps, your first bike ride, your first sexual experience. We can often feel a bit lost. Our early sexual experiences differ. They can be tough, funny, and awkward. We’d like to discuss them in this play. Ourselves, our experiences, dilemmas, and excitement. We’ll talk about the mistakes that once seemed to be the end of the world, but still we can laugh about them now. feel a bit lost. Our early sexual experiences differ. They can be tough, funny, awkward. We’d like to discuss them in this play. Ourselves, our experiences, dilemmas, and excitement. We’ll talk about the mistakes that once seemed to be the end of the world, but still we can laugh about them now. We are going to ask one another about what we like, about where we lay our boundaries. We want to talk about sex, because sexuality is inborn and natural, and all of us are sexual creatures. We’ll be speaking about sex, because this is a safe and open space. We’re here to take risks. To “unshame” the subject of sex.

Playwright, dramaturge and stage director Michał Buszewicz (b. 1986) graduated from the Jagiellonian University Theatre Studies and the Theatre Directing at the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow with the dramaturgy specialization. He wrote several dramas and was one of the semi-finalists and the finalists of the Gdynia Dramaturgical Award. In writing some of his scripts he employed a collective creation method involving performers’ improvisation (e.g. the play Erasmus within the European Ensemble project and Slow motion staged at the Lithuanian National Theatre). As a dramaturge he co-created, among others, Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek in the Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk, The Miser based on Moliere’s comedy in the Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz (with Ewelina Marciniak), Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (with Anna Augustynowicz) and An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen in the National Stary Theatre in Cracow (dir. Jan Klata). He directed Kwestia techniki (It’s All About the Technique), Książka telefoniczna (Phonebook) and Kibice (Football fans) based on his own scripts. He is also the director of a short film based on an extract from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Between 2015 and 2016 he worked as the head of dramaturgy department at the National Stary Theatre in Cracow. He ran a playwright workshop at the Jagiellonian University Performative Studies and at the Laboratory of New Theatre Practices in Warsaw. He is a member of the artistic group of the Warsaw Performing Arts Institute. In 2023, he was nominated for the Polityka’s Passport Award.

 

“By Polish standards, this is a remarkably courageous play, which remains subtle and keeps within certain boundaries; it is a great example of sexual education and also an important conversation on the subject (…) above all, this is a new language for talking about sex, without taboos and shame. The acting is brilliant and the visual form is interesting, avoiding stereotyped images of sex; the music is great as well.”
Przemek Gulda (instagram guldapoleca)

‘’Sex Education is devilishly funny. The comedy of the play comes from the fact that the audience and the performers are ultimately powerless. We take a sensitive look at one another and take our first steps, contemplating the absurdity of the world we live in. A group of teenage experts worked on Sex Education, and were consulted for the play’s content. This is an important step in searching for a new, democratic language in theater. (…) I have a feeling that a revolution began at the Współczesny Theater in Szczecin on the evening of that premiere.”
Zofia Kowalska (Teatr dla Wszystkich)
‘’Buszewicz’s play proves that the theater can be a space for sex education, and it can play this role with grace, humor, and imagination (…).”
Teresa Fazan, (Dwutygodnik)

Script and direction: Michał Buszewicz
Assistant director: Wojciech Sandach
Stage set and costumes: Doris Nawrot
Assistant set designer: Michał Dobrucki
Music: Baasch
Choreography: Katarzyna Sikora
Light design: Aleksandr Prowaliński
Sexology consultant: Maja Wencierska
Consultant in the field of LGBTQ+ community: Agnieszka Różyńska

Cast: Maria Dąbrowska, Ewa Sobiech, Helena Urbańska, Arkadiusz Buszko, Maciej Litkowski, Paweł Niczewski, Jacek Piątkowski, Wojciech Sandach and Oliwer Czerniak (a book voice)