3, 6-13 Aug at 7:15 pm
Summerhhall (venue 26) Demonstration Room / 1 Summerhall (EH9 1PL)
Tickets: £10/£8
Box office: 0845 874 3001
Language: Polish, English, Russian
Duration: 70 min
Age restrictions: 12+
A scene from We Are Chechens!
The play explores the behaviour of human beings who find themselves in the midst of a gruesome war. It depicts their struggle in making life-or-death decisions, such as 'Should I stay and fight for my country or should I run away, leaving the ones that I love behind?'
We are Chechens! was not created to stir controversy or to provoke. The play simply asks one question: “why?”. Why did millions of innocent people have to suffer for reasons beyond comprehension? We are Chechens! aims to give a voice to the people that were silenced and ignored by the world.
The performance is based on sections from I am a Chechen by German Sadulaev and A Small Corner of Hell by the late Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Born in 1978, Marcin Brzozowski is an actor and a lecturer of the Łódź Film School’s acting course. He made his debut in Martin McDonagh’s Królowa Piękności / The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which was staged at the Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź and directed by Barbara Stass. Brzozowski is the co-founder of the independent Gertrude Stein Chorus and he authored the founding of an association of graduates and lecturers of the Łódź Film School called Targowa 62. His solo performance entitled Claphan Junction met with significant recognition from the Polish audiences, and won Brzozowski numerous awards.
The Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera w Łodzi) is the most notable academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operators and TV staff in Poland. It was founded on the 8th of March, 1948 in Łódź, and it was initially planned to be moved to Warsaw. The school remained in Łódź, and it is the best-known institution of film education in the entire country.