Menopause...and already (Kino Etiuda) - tickets

Event Description

Four wonderful actresses, four 'tigresses in menopause' tell and sing about a difficult period of life that will not bypass any woman. The community of experiences connects the characters of the play and the women in the audience. The performance becomes a 'women's meeting' full of humor - the best remedy for all ailments. Inevitable problems in the joyful and warm atmosphere of the show cease to be embarrassing and turn out to be not so scary at all! No one in Poland has ever spoken so wittily, openly, with distance and a sense of humor about women's issues. It all started in Los Angeles, where Elżbieta Jodłowska saw an extraordinarily funny musical show, where women laughed to tears exclaiming 'that's me!', 'I went through the same thing!' and decided to create something similar, but set in Polish realities, with local everyday problems and our favorite hits.

The heroines of the musical are four women in the 'menopausal' age. They all have problems they must deal with. We want to show that menopause is part of a woman's life - the heroines performing on stage, but also the women sitting in the audience - have had, have, or will have it. It is a difficult time for a woman, which does not mean it is hopeless. The awareness of the community of certain experiences is important - the women in the audience learn that their ailments are not something exceptional. Despite the fact that menopause affects all women, it is a shameful topic, and consequently - carefully avoided. Through the performance, we want to illustrate, in a comprehensible, accessible, and humorous way, how various ways can help cope with it. Some heroines want to undergo hormone replacement therapy, others fear it and choose herbal medicine, while others turn to yoga or gym exercises.

The play aims to show these various behaviors, always in a humorous way - especially since humor is an excellent remedy (without side effects). Laughing makes it easier to endure the adversities of fate. The actresses are not afraid of humor, they are not ashamed to play characters in middle and older age. They are well-known media figures, capable of amusing and touching the audience. They show that one can be active and creative as a woman, have fun, and connect to the advanced age. No one, like another woman, understands the sufferings experienced during this time. Hence the popular 'women's' meetings where one can talk about 'embarrassing' topics that are difficult to discuss with men or children. We believe that the problems of menopause are best characterized by the initial text that women 'rap' at the beginning of the show. The performance aims to show that every woman has her own good way to deal with it all. The most important thing is for this topic to stop being a taboo subject, so that it can be talked about. Important topics do not have to be presented seriously, which is why humor is so important in the performance.

The following actresses perform alternately in the show:
Pamela: Elżbieta Jodłowska, Małgorzata Duda, Elżbieta Okupska
Malina: Renata Zarębska, Ewa Śnieżanka, Katarzyna Kozak
Krycha: Ewa Złotowska, Małgorzata Gadecka, Ewa Cichocka, Małgorzata Duda, Joanna Jeżewska
Zosia: Grażyna Zielińska, Ludmiła Warzecha, Małgorzata Gadecka, Dorota Piasecka

Text: Elżbieta Jodłowska
Scenography and costumes: Tatiana Kwiatkowska
Musical direction and arrangements: Janusz Bogacki
Choreography: Tomasz Tworkowski

Menopause and already Ewa Złotowska, Małgorzata Gadecka, Ewa Cichocka, Grażyna Zielińska, Ludmiła Warzecha, Jodłowska,

In the play, it is humorously spoken and sung about hot flashes, which for many women is something shameful. Here we hear the melody of the song 'Cuba, an island like a volcano' and the heroines sing: 'I feel the hot flash again O-la! E-ja! As if I touched the sun with my forehead, the tropics ignite me.' The pursuit of perfection is sometimes accompanied by enormous sacrifice, which the heroines describe in the song: 'I can’t catch my breath anymore... And success is already here... My trainer promised me, that is, Staś, that in ten grams it will drop... already.' These women are aware of the passing time, which does not spare them, but they do not intend to despair, they freely accept it as something that is part of every woman's life who crosses the milestone of 50 years. A wonderful comedy - one of the most frequently staged in recent years on the stages of theaters throughout Poland! Tickets available at: KupBilecik.pl

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