Graduation Performance of the Capitol Musical Theatre Studio
date: 27 March (Friday) 2026, 19:00
duration: 1h 10 min (no intermission)
tickets: Free entry ticket available at the Capitol box office
script: Mikołaj Woubishet (script inspired by documentary film on Netflix ,,Buy now! The Shopping Conspiracy”)
direction: Barbara Olech, Mikołaj Woubishet
music: Małgorzata Majerska, Błażej Sudnikowicz
choreography: Barbara Olechset
set design and costumes: Magdalena Nykiel
vocal preparation: Magdalena Zawartko
cast
AI Dori’s Assistant: Kinga Kraus
Tracker: Zuzanna Pytlowska
Picker: Barbara Wierzgacz
Fixer: Maja Kaczmarek
Jeff Bezos: Michał Kusowski
Steve Jobs: Bartosz Horbowski
Eric Liedtke: Mikołaj Żukowski
Influencer 1/ Dori’s assistant: Aida August
Influencer 2/young light bulb: Alicja Budzyń
Worker 1/ Dori’s assistant: Patrycja Kaliciak
Worker 2: Karolina Stasiuk
Music Man: Karolina Bronkowska
Old light bulb- Katarzyna Lewicka
“Buy Now” is a musical inspired by the Netflix documentary “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” and the graduation performance of the Capitol Musical Theatre Studio.
The audience is drawn into the onboarding process of a fictional corporation known simply as Company, where the lines between an employee, customer, and product quickly begin to blur.
At the centre stands Dori, a virtual coach who, with programmed enthusiasm, introduces the audience to the Company’s secret strategies. She summons iconic figures from the world of fashion, art, and design to train new employees in the techniques of persuasion and sales.
Contemporary music — mainly electronic, built around catchy motifs — functions as a tool for shaping identification with the brand, reinforcing the illusion of success and happiness.
Choreography is inseparable from the narrative. Movement becomes a storytelling device; group sequences and individual expression reveal both the mechanics of the system and the moments of resistance.
“Buy Now” is an ironic yet unsettling musical about the consequences of mass overproduction and compulsive consumption — and about the collective inability to notice what happens to things once they are no longer new and pretty.
