STRYJENSKA.
Let's Dance, Zofia!

RADIO DRAMA

ORIGINAL TITLE: STRYJEŃSKA. Let’s Dance, Zofia!
ON AIR: ​Polskie Radio, 24 November 2019
LANGUAGE: Polish

STRYJENSKA. Let's Dance, Zofia!

RADIO DRAMA

ORIGINAL TITLE: STRYJEŃSKA. Let's Dance, Zofia!

ON AIR: Polskie Radio, 24 November 2019

LANGUAGE: Polish

WRITTEN BY

Anna Duda, Dorota Landowska, Joanna Lewicka

based on a play Let’s Dance, Zofia by Anna Duda
with excerpts from personal diaries of the painter Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976)
published in Stryjenska. Diabli Nadali by Angelika Kuźniak (2015)

MUSIC DIRECTION

Janusz Kukuła

DIRECTION

Joanna Lewicka

MUSIC

Christoph Coburger

SOUND

Andrzej Brzoska 

PERFORMED BY

Dorota Landowska
Mariusz Bonaszewski
Dariusz Jeż
Łukasz Borkowski
Katarzyna Skarżanka

PRODUCTION

Teatr Polskiego Radia – Warszawa

Plakat spektakly STRYJENSKA! Let's Dance, Zofia!

WRITTEN BY
Anna Duda, Dorota Landowska, Joanna Lewicka
based on a play Let’s Dance, Zofia by Anna Duda
with excerpts from personal diaries of the painter Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976)
published in Stryjenska. Diabli Nadali by Angelika Kuźniak (2015)

MUSIC DIRECTION
Janusz Kukuła

DIRECTION
Joanna Lewicka

MUSIC
Christoph Coburger

SOUND
Andrzej Brzoska

PERFORMED BY
Dorota Landowska
Mariusz Bonaszewski
Dariusz Jeż
Łukasz Borkowski
Katarzyna Skarżanka

PRODUCTION
Teatr Polskiego Radia – Warszawa

The radio play Stryjeńska – Let’s dance, Zofia! recorded in 2019 is a spin-off of my multidisciplinary project resulting in the 2018 theatre production with the same title. The project follows the biography of the painter Zofia Stryjeńska and examines the social progress that has taken place within the last century, including the development of democratic structures and universal suffrage.

Stryjeńska a fair share of her life as a political refugee in Germany, France and Switzerland. Inspired by European art, she sought both her own identity and her own artistic style. She struggled with adversities in the times of turbulent European history: fin de siècle, World War I, Poland’s independence, the crazy twenties, Hitler’s crisis and rise to power, World War II, post-war destruction and refugee camps, and finally – the Berlin Wall and the division of Europe into two spheres of influence. As a director I was interested in these political and social contexts, the influence of external circumstances on the creative process, but also in mutual influences and artistic correspondence: visual arts, theatre, contemporary music, performance.

Staged as monologue performed by Dorota Landowska, the text was later rewritten specifically for radio and for a larger cast.