Cultural Bridges 2017

In October 2017, the Plac Teatralny Foundation secured an invitation for the Aleksander Fredro Theatre in Gniezno to the 27th International Theatre Festival “Baltic House”. The festival’s management invited “The Sandbox”, directed by Evgenia Baginskaya. The President of the Plac Teatralny Foundation coordinated the theatre’s visit to Russia and organised the trip to Saint Petersburg.

The Gniezno theatre presented “The Sandbox” to a full house on the festival’s small stage. The actors received enthusiastic applause. Natalia Skorokhod, Dean of the Playwriting Department at the Saint Petersburg Theatre Academy and a collaborator of the Foundation, then invited the audience to meet the playwright Michał Walczak. Questions concerned inspiration, his work and future plans. His cabaret “Pożar w Burdelu” (“Fire in the Brothel”) also attracted considerable interest.

After the performance and discussion, festival director Marina Aronovna Belyaeva invited everyone to a celebratory dinner. The Aleksander Fredro Theatre company received a traditional Russian pie to mark its festival debut.