Teatr Współczesny in Szczecin
date: 24 March (Tuesday) 2026, 18:00
duration: 1h 40 min (no intermission)
tickets: 60, 70, 80 pln
PPA production: Renata Majewska
direction: Marcin Liber
script, lyrics: Michał Kmiecik
set design, costumes, light: Mirek Kaczmarek
choreography: HASHIMOTOWIKSA
music: Marcin Macuk
vocal preparation: Sandra Klara Januszewska
assistant director: Wojciech Sandach
stage manager: Jolanta Szadkowska
Cast: Julia Gadzina, Maria Dąbrowska, Magdalena Wrani-Stachowska, Maria Wójtowicz, Konrad Beta, Adam Kuzycz-Berezowski, Arkadiusz Buszko, Kacper Kujawa, Maciej Litkowski, Wojciech Sandach, Konrad Pawicki
Wrocław and Szczecin both lie on the Oder River — and that’s where the similarities end. Szczecin paprikash, invented in 1967 at the Gryf food plant to process fish scraps, was never more than a sad tourist necessity — upriver. Downriver, however, it earned itself something far more serious — a monument. Seasonal, yes. But still a monument.
Współczesny Theatre’s production is not a sentimental hymn to this culinary oddity (for some, though, it can be). This flashy, absurd, meta-theatrical comedy works like life itself: a fishy, minced mass, sealed in a tin of existence, and seasoned with random spices.
Someone calls. Someone doesn’t answer. Someone has a birthday. Someone goes to the doctor. Someone is the doctor. Someone is sick. Someone has an appointment. Someone is born. Someone is overdue. Someone dies. Someone gets abducted by aliens. Someone hits their head and dreams they are human.
Photo. Piotr Nykowski
