Too Slow – Polish Film Festival

The play is a grotesque portrait of a Polish intellectual over thirty. One morning, the protagonist is woken up (or is it still part of his dream?) by mysterious figures who accuse him of not taking part in the competition going on in the world, of living ‘too slowly’, of being a grey ‘everyman’ – a nobody. Despite his objections, he ends up on a training ground that is supposed to prepare him for fight but, above all, to help him define his identity. Enough of ‘standing aside’. Only by actively taking sides will he answer the question: ‘Who am I?’. The mysterious characters begin training (dog training?) the protagonist, placing him in contentious situations, arranging conflict, and suggesting ‘the only right’ answers to the questions posed. The aim is to get him out of his stupor, force him to be active, and make him fight. The author ironically alludes to Różewicz’s The Card Index and Kafka’s The Trial. The play won an honourable mention in the playwriting competition organised by the ZAiKS Association in 2020.