Sons

Katarzyna Waligóra reports on the play All about My Mother directed by Michał Borczuch (Łaźnia Nowa Theater in Krakow, premiere: 22.04.2016). The author traces the plot of the play, in which the director and actor Krzysztof Zarzecki speak of their mothers who died of cancer. Waligóra analyzes the methods of building narratives about private pasts from remnant and images. Waligóra notes that the part devoted to Zofia, the mother of Michał Borczuch, involves summoning phantasms, which differentiates it from the part devoted to Krystyna, Zarzecki’s mother, in which some memories are consciously withheld. The actresses’ impact on the quality and meaning of the play are also discussed.