In 2023 in Poland, 1893 people have died in road accidents. 91% of those accidents were caused by the drivers. We want to take a closer look at how Polish people drive. Why do we exceed speed limit and disregard the traffic instructions so often? What kind of situations on the road make us lose our patience? What does it mean to be a “good driver”? Are men better drivers than women? What can we do to reduce the number of deaths on the road and to make everyone feel safer?
We want to delve on what the fact of having and using a car triggers in us. How does it influence our self-worth and relations with others? What makes a person go from calm and steady to a volcano of anger and fury in just one second while driving? What emotions are triggered by driving a car? Are we feeling more confident, independent, free? It’ll be a story about us as human beings and us as a nation – about our longings, fears, desires, beliefs, unrealized habits, and socially heired patterns. All combined with a big dose of twisted humor and unconventional theatrical form.
Script, direction, stage design, musical arrangement by: Mateusz Przyłęcki
Choreography: Eliza Hołubowska
Cast: Bibianna Chimiak, Karolina Sabat, Dariusz Mikuła, Piotr Starzyński
Production manager, lights: Piotr Motas
Concept of lights: Piotr Motas, Mateusz Przyłęcki
Sound and multimedia: Krzysztof Nowak
Premiere: January 2025
Production: The Kana Theatre, Szczecin (Poland)
Sensitive content: the play contains scenes of car accidents. The play contains smoke and profanity.
Duration: 90 minutes
The script uses texts from: the book "We all drive like this" by Bartosz Józefiak (Czarne Publisher, 2023), Katarzyna Kozuń channel - taxi_mama_kasia, Tomasz Tosza column (obserwatorgospodarczy.pl 31.10.2019), interview with Tomasz Tosza (Łukasz Pawłowski "Liberal Culture", wiadomoscionet.pl 19.11.2019), Łukasz Zboralski (Grzegorz Sroczyński, gazeta.pl 22.02.2021), and a poem by Bogusia (SP no. 3 in Zdzieszowice).
The Kana Theatre team would like to thank Iza Gawęcka, Agnieszka Zieleziecka, Justyna Zawadzka and Witek Kazanowski for sharing their personal stories.
photo: Marcin Bielecki
POBIERZ
ZDJĘCIA
BILET
BILET
In 2023 in Poland, 1893 people have died in road accidents. 91% of those accidents were caused by the drivers. We want to take a closer look at how Polish people drive. Why do we exceed speed limit and disregard the traffic instructions so often? What kind of situations on the road make us lose our patience? What does it mean to be a “good driver”? Are men better drivers than women? What can we do to reduce the number of deaths on the road and to make everyone feel safer?
We want to delve on what the fact of having and using a car triggers in us. How does it influence our self-worth and relations with others? What makes a person go from calm and steady to a volcano of anger and fury in just one second while driving? What emotions are triggered by driving a car? Are we feeling more confident, independent, free? It’ll be a story about us as human beings and us as a nation – about our longings, fears, desires, beliefs, unrealized habits, and socially heired patterns. All combined with a big dose of twisted humor and unconventional theatrical form.
Script, direction, stage design, musical arrangement by: Mateusz Przyłęcki
Choreography: Eliza Hołubowska
Cast: Bibianna Chimiak, Karolina Sabat, Dariusz Mikuła, Piotr Starzyński
Production manager, lights: Piotr Motas
Concept of lights: Piotr Motas, Mateusz Przyłęcki
Sound and multimedia: Krzysztof Nowak
Premiere: January 2025
Production: The Kana Theatre, Szczecin (Poland)
Sensitive content: the play contains scenes of car accidents. The play contains smoke and profanity.
Duration: 90 minutes
The script uses texts from: the book "We all drive like this" by Bartosz Józefiak (Czarne Publisher, 2023), Katarzyna Kozuń channel - taxi_mama_kasia, Tomasz Tosza column (obserwatorgospodarczy.pl 31.10.2019), interview with Tomasz Tosza (Łukasz Pawłowski "Liberal Culture", wiadomoscionet.pl 19.11.2019), Łukasz Zboralski (Grzegorz Sroczyński, gazeta.pl 22.02.2021), and a poem by Bogusia (SP no. 3 in Zdzieszowice).
The Kana Theatre team would like to thank Iza Gawęcka, Agnieszka Zieleziecka, Justyna Zawadzka and Witek Kazanowski for sharing their personal stories.
photo: Marcin Bielecki
POBIERZ
ZDJĘCIA
BILET
