Turkowski & Nowacka

In the new production by Turkowski & Nowacka, everything is in motion: the starting point of the play is the founding of JaWa, a social enterprise whose only employees are Jan, who is in need of housing, and Waldemar, who has just been released from prison. In their new job, the two meet and accompany the artists Iwona Nowacka and Janek Turkowski. They travel together to the Komuna Warszawa theater in Warsaw, where they participate in renovation work in the garden as part of an artistic residency. In a combination of intimate theater and performance, Turkowski & Nowacka share with the audience their experiences from these 18 months of joint gardening and carpentry work and the balancing act involved in this undertaking. “JaWa” takes a sensitive yet unsparing look at the complexity of community and asks how social activism is organized and what demands it entails. The result is a moving and humorous story about dignity, addiction, and freedom, poverty and wealth, crises and successes.