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Director
Krzysztof Zygucki
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Author
Mateusz Górniak
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Premiere
27 June 2025
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Duration
90 min.
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Tickets
Regular ticket: 70 PLN
Concessionary ticket: 50 PLN
Cast
About performance
Mateusz Górniak’s Two Motion Novels are fast-paced narratives about people pushed to the fringes of the affluent world by capitalism. It apotheosises motion seen as change. The novel is a point of departure for the play WHAM BAM, winner of the ninth Debiut TR Award.
Can crisis be an opportunity? Living in a world of ever-growing crises and turbulence, can we use them to our advantage? Perhaps they can trigger something within us. For example, the need to take a different route. A desire to hit the road. After all, movement means change and change means setting off on some kind of journey. On this new route, you will probably make mistakes. Hopefully. After all, you are heading into the unknown. You are blazing a new trail.
The creators of WHAM BAM have chosen to do just that: they’re setting off. They are excited! They feel goosebumps! But on the inside, they are thinking: “holy shit,” “let me be.” A crisis. But easy does it. Keep moving. The world, broken into splinters and shards, will not put itself back together on its own. Not on its own, no, but we’re starting on this journey together. What shall we find at the end? A forest, perhaps? Or just your every-morning pour-over. No one knows just yet. Let’s go.
All this here is a tale of the road. And also, of people and non-people who want and who rush
and who, just like that, become wham and bam.
The performance is recommended for viewers aged 16+.
The performance deals with drug addiction and mental health crisis. It features vulgar language, pulsating light, stage smoke and sexual content.
Creators
director: Krzysztof Zygucki
adaptation and dramaturgy: Wera Makowskx
set, costumes, lithgts and video: Julia Furdyna, Zofia Tomalska
choreography: Magdalena Kawecka
music: Joanna Szczęsnowicz
guitar improvisations: Damian Sosnowski
director’s assistant: Alicja Zalewska
stage manager: Piotr Piotrowicz
production manager: Aleksandra Szklarczyk
The play features the song Życie to nie “Notting Hill” [Life is not a “Nothing Hill”]
lyrics and music: Filip Zaremba
arrangement: Joanna Szczęsnowicz
About the creators
Krzysztof Zygucki
A lawyer by profession. A waiter out of passion for money and food. A philosopher and cyclist for life. Runs a lot. Sometimes swims. When he stops, he drinks espresso. Leans towards pretentiousness and shows a poor sense of humour.
He is a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Directing and Dramaturgy at AST Kraków. He graduated in law from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and in philosophy from the Pedagogical University in Kraków. He assisted Remigiusz Bryk in the play Chłopi at Teatr Ludowy in Kraków, and Michał Zadar in his graduation performance Oresteia at AST Kraków. A member of the Synergie collective and the AST Dramaturgy Lab. Winner of the Debiut TR award and the WyspianKiss award at the 13th Forum of Young Directors. His works have been presented at the Divine Comedy Festival (Ha ha ha) and the Klasyka Żywa Festival (Ah ci Persowie). Author of the script for Pół żarciem pół serio (AST Kraków) and Poza zero czyli jak pokochałem bombę (Teatr Barakah, Kraków).
Wera Makowskx
Wera Makowskx graduated from the Faculty of Directing and Dramaturgy at AST Kraków. She made her debut with Ludowa historia Polski at New Theatre, Łódź, for which she created the script and dramaturgy (the script was later published in the Dialog magazine). She was a semi-finalist for the Gdynia Drama Award. She directed the plays Sweet & Romantic (TR Warszawa) based on Paul Preciado’s Testo Junkie, ONO-1 (eatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu), Inferno (Festiwal Nowe Epifanie), Ciało (Sopot Non Fiction), Poza Zero (Teatr Barakah) based on Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove and Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow. She is the dramaturge and author of Ha ha ha’ and Limit Frequency. Together with second and fourth-year students of AST Krakow, she produced Wielopole, Wielopole’ in an abandoned café during the strict lockdown. She loves sitcoms, console games, picking mushrooms, a simple life and peace and quiet.
About the author of Two Motion Novels
Mateusz Górniak (born 1996 in Silesia) is an author, playwright and film critic. His debut novel, Trash Story (Ha!art, 2022) made him a finalist for the NIKE Award and was shortlisted for the Conrad Award and Gdynia Literary Award. His 2023 Dwie powieści ruchu earned him a nomination for the Gdynia Literary Award. He is also a two-time winner of the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award. As a dramaturge, he has worked at various theatres, including Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz, Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin, and Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, where, during his artistic residency in the 2023/24 season, he created Adaptacja Jutuba and collaborated on the play Elizabeth Costello directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. His short stories and essays have been published in various magazines, including KINO, Mały Format, Dialog Puzyny, Mint Magazine, Dwutygodnik and Stoner Polski, the latter of which he was a long-time editor.
Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund.
