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translation by Agnieszka Lubomira Piotrowska
set design: Marta Skajnowska

cast: Maria Maj, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Magdalena Popławska / Aleksandra Popławska, Agnieszka Roszkowska / Dominika Biernat, Jan Drawnel, Piotr Głowacki, Piotr Ligienza / Lech Łotocki, Michał Sitarski / Janusz Chabior

It's all about the story of Alexander and Alexandra (...). Their relationship and a murder committed by Aleksander on his wife. After he was fascinated by Aleksandra. She was like an oxygen. And the oxygen is the desired object longed by all the characters and a main motive of their actions. They violently fight for their existence, acting irrational and despair gestures. (...).
The world that has lost it's sphere and drifts somewhere in weihgtlessness, losing all the reference points. As if the total amok has destroyed all the social standards. Not only those written down, but mainly those relating to sensitivity of one's consciousness. Although every section of the performance, separated as if by chance, begins with the female voice on the off quoting travesties of the biblical moral commandments (this is the remain of the musical structure of the original play), it's difficult to find it's influence on character's actions.
And though we hear: "You shall not kill. And whoever should kill, he shall be judged", we do not know, who should be the judge. All the beings on stage desperately try to get some oxygen, they fight against the world's misery and indolent reality. Is there a better world outside, behind those closed windows hardly giving any light? Is there more oxygen there?
Bartosz Frąckowiak, Didaskalia

premiered: 5 May 2004
Performance is presented in building on 3/5 Marszałkowska Street