The story of the protagonist (the author named him “I”) at first sounds like an absurd tale from a bad dream. One day, “I” suddenly discovers that everyone around looks, talks, thinks, and behaves exactly like him. What’s more – they simply are him. Classmates, teachers, the shop assistant at the greengrocer’s, kids in the playground, and even his parents! Worst of all, Julka, the girl he has a special fondness for, looks the same too… Reality has become absurd and, to be honest, unbearable. After all, how can you play football when the players on both teams look identical? Which goal should you shoot at? How can you rebel against Mom or Dad when they are me? At first, it seems funny, but after an entire day spent only in the company of “himself,” it stops being so amusing.
A thought-provoking play about the need to find one’s own personality, one’s own self, and about the ever-relevant dilemma (especially among children and teenagers): to be like others or to be different. Just take a look at the young people around us, who often look (act, think) almost like clones. Yet next to them, we notice others who already have the desire and courage to express themselves and their own opinions, while also growing into acceptance of diversity. After all, the world is more interesting, richer, and more colorful when we differ from one another.
Text: Jarosław Murawski
Director: Tomasz Maśląkowski
Set design: Michał Dracz
Music: Grzegorz Mazoń
Assistant director: Beata Zawiślak
Cast:
Urszula Gołdowska, Katarzyna Prudło, Beata Zawiślak, Piotr Janiszewski, Michał Skiba, Bartosz Socha
Duration: 55 minutes
