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direction: Ingmar Villqist
set design: Małgorzata Szczęśniak
lighting design: Janusz Zabłocki

cast: Marek Kalita, Jacek Poniedziałek

Villqist's playwriting requires the theatre that could be named, after Strindberg, one of the patrons of this creation, the intimate theatre. While television turns into mangle, the theatre has a chance to become one of the last places where the intimate meeting between people is possible. This is what The Anaerobes is about. This is the story of the people who are on the edge of their lives and struggle to survive. (...)
Villqist goes deeply into the intimate life of his heroes and observing this process requires some special conditions. Fortunately, spectacle is faithful to the spirit of his playwriting. The Anaerobes is played in the old joinery turned into the stage with tens of sits. One can hear the tick-tack of a clock standing on the night shelf and actors' breaths: Jacek Poniedziałek and Marek Kalita.
Roman Pawłowski, Gazeta Wyborcza

premiered: 12 March 2001

approximate running time: 1 hour (no intermission)
Rehearsal Room TR, STOLARNIA