Lie down comfortably and close your eyes. Let me tell you about love. About a powerful feeling that can give strength, but can also expose our greatest weaknesses. About what brought Bess and Jan together, even though no one gave this relationship a chance. I will tell you about people whose love was put to the test. About an accident that changed their lives at the moment when they seemed happiest. Because love is tears of joy, but also of suffering. Do you think it can’t hurt? Close your eyes. A woman is walking along the sea coast... Can you see it?

One of Lars von Trier’s most famous films in a stage adaptation for two actors – Aleksandra Przybył and Dariusz Chojnacki tackle the legendary work. What have we missed so far when watching the story of Bess and Jan? What have we forgotten, focusing on oppression and violence? Justyna Łagowska, one of Poland’s most interesting directors and set designers, invites us into a laboratory of love, relationships and relations where nothing is as it seemed just a moment ago. “Breaking the Waves” is her first production at the Silesian Theatre.

Special thanks to the Mikołaj Kopernik Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory in Chorzów for their cooperation and hospitality.

Copyright to the play ‘Breaking the waves’ is represented by ADiT Agency Elżbieta Manthey.