Performance “Fucking Truffaut” | Ukraine / Poland
Creators: Bliadski Circus Queelective
Direction. Roza Sarkisian
Dramaturgy: Krysia Bednarek
Music: Alexandra Malatskovskaya
Costumes: Babcia, Kiju Klejzik, Vrona
Video: Antonina Romanova, Magda Mosiewicz
Stage design: Kiju Klejzik
Curator: Agata Siwiak
Programme consultant: Joanna Krakowska
Producer: Dominika Mądry
Cast: Alexandra Malatskovskaya, Antonina Romanova, Babcia, Vrona (Arek Koziński), Magda Mosiewicz, Roza Sarkisian
Production: Fundacja Reszka
Co-production: Teatr Dramatyczny im. Gustawa Holoubka, Maxim Gorki Theater w Berlinie
Premiere: November 11, 2023 (Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin), December 27, 2023 (Teatr Dramatyczny im. Gustawa Holoubka in Warsaw)
Date: August 30, 2026 | Sunday
Time: 5 pm
Place: Room A_22, Art Factory in Łódź, 3 Tymienieckiego Street
Tickets: 25 PLN - industry | 40 PLN - early bird | 50 PLN - reduced | 70 PLN - regular
Early bird tickets: on sale from June 23, 2026 until July 7, 2026 or until they are sold out | via biletomat.pl portal | online payment
Regular and reduced tickets: on sale from July 8, 2026 until they are sold out | via biletomat.pl portal | online payment
Industry tickets: for cultural workers, on sale one hour before the selected event, at the Festival Office | cash or contactless card payment | booking: from June 23, 2026, by mail:biuro@retroperspektywy.com
Duration: 70 minutes
Age restrictions: 18+
Language: Performance in Polish and Ukrainian with subtitles in English
Content warning: Themes relating to war, trauma, loss, social exclusion, queer, LGBTQ+, loud music, strobe lights, and smoke
After the performance, around 6:30 pm, we invite the viewers to a meeting and discussion with the artists.
The discussion will take place in the Room A_22 of the Art Factory in Łódź.
The discussion will be led by Tomasz Domagała.
The discussion will be held in Polish.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE
When the world is falling apart, we want to come together with our audience to seek out alternatives.
In the performance “Fucking Truffault”, Bliadski Circus Queelective listens both to the streets of Warsaw and to the stories and sounds coming from shelled Ukrainian cities. On stage, they comment on current events, becoming a space for the expression of difficult and sometimes contradictory emotions, filling the space with feminist content, drag humour, herstory, queer texts and self-deprecating humour. Bliadski Circus vibrates with freedom and celebrates diversity.
The French director François Truffaut believed that any form of discourse on war amounts to its glorification. Bliadski Circus Queelective, however, seeks alternative representations of war, posing the questions: Is critical art possible in an age when the whole of culture is reduced to a propaganda machine? How can we break free from the cycle of artistic reproductions of military discourse? Does society need theatre when kamikaze drones are flying overhead?
This is a story about transness, war and a different way of telling the tale of a terrible world. The performance grinds the form of cabaret, etudes, contemporary theatre pieces, video works and mini video-essays. It is a highly sensitive cacophony, quite daring, yet with a seriousness for the soul.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Bliadski Circus Queelective - a Ukrainian-Polish, feminist-queer theatre and cabaret group. The collective’s main forms of artistic expression are: firstly - cabaret as a response to the turbulent times marked by the war in Ukraine; and secondly - queer as a space of love, resistance and subversion, which allows for a radical transgression of the boundaries of bourgeois taste and patriarchal norms.
