Although Pan Twardowski is addressed to children, probably less than ten years old, there are many adults in the audience,
who think - I have fun with my kids, especially when the heat outside doesn't bother me. […]
Jerzy Lamenta, the director of the show, proposed a nice show explaining to small children where the Lajkonik and the only Pole on the moon came from. To abuse the word "likable", the show provided a way to spend a Sunday morning, away from the mind-numbing television. Especially that the stage is colourful, cheerful, the music is playing, the characters are having fun for the devil's ducats. And the ending fills with a moral that parents can talk to their children about, discussing the problems of betrayal of a given word, payment, punishment, even a pact with the devil. Everything according to the slogan "What the shell will soak up when you are young..."
The performance is important for its director, as it honors a large jubilee. This year, Jerzy Lamenta celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his artistic work. Pan Twardowski's scenography resembles the mechanism of the Prince of Portugal. And no wonder, because the author of both is Arkadiusz Gacparski, a cartoonist and satirist from Szczecin. The space is organized by a multifunctional altar, on the one hand, the interior of the master's workshop, on the other, the Krakow Cloth Hall, and finally, the inn. The effigies have something of the charm of Cepelian dolls, especially Honoratka, with long, bright braids.
The fact that the performance was made with the youngest viewers in mind is also evidenced by the layout of the program - a four-page insert is filled with drawings with the instruction to color in friends from a fairy tale.
MM [Małgorzata Masłowska], "Daily Express West", 1994, No. 87.
Illustrations (included in the programme): Arkadiusz Gacparski
Photos: LT materials
Creators:
Author: Waclaw Brzecicki
Directed by Jerzy Lamenta
Scenography: Arkadiusz Gacparski
Music: Wiktor Sędziński
Text arrangement: Artur Beling
Cast:
Artur Beling - Mr. Twardowski
Jan Wysocki - Devil Chubby)
Beata Sobicka-Żak
Ewa Sikora - Rooster
Wioletta Sokal / Dobrosława Trębacz - Honorata
Jerzy Lamenta-Martin
Premiere: April 24, 1994
