My Shadow Is Pink

Based on the text by Scott Stuart.

A play directed by Bartosz Kurowski, based on Scott Stuart’s picture book of the same title. A moving, yet not obvious, story about the courage to be oneself, as well as about shared responsibility, community, and coexistence that can color even the greatest fears.

” (…) a story about what some wrongly call ideology. And yet, this is a very delicate matter, comprising issues such as identity, diversity, and self-acceptance. And the acceptance of otherness in oneself and in others, which one must know how to discuss with children as well.”

Michał Rusinek, translator with a very colorful shadow

Premiere: February 12, 2022

Creators

Translation: Michał Rusinek
Adaptation and Direction: Bartosz Kurowski
Set Design: Klaudia Laszczyk
Music: Łukasz Damrych
Stage Movement: Szymon Michlewicz-Sowa
Psychological Consultation: Bianca-Beata Kotoro, Aleksandra Dulas

Cast

Łukasz Batko
Łukasz Bzura
Krzysztof Ciesielski
Małgorzata Krawczenko
Hanna Matusiak/Jagoda Zimała
Piotr Osak
Piotr Pasek
Natalia Wieciech/Żaneta Małkowska

Gallery

A bearded actor with a bun on his head, illuminated by blue and red light, peeks out from large monstera leaves; a yellow neon zigzag glows in the background.
A person lying on their side on a checkered stage floor in intense pink light; in the background, a striped armchair, a yellow lamp-shaped neon, and a figure working with purple fabric are visible.
An actor in a white shirt and a voluminous gray tutu stands on a checkered stage, surrounded by four puppeteers in black holding large, colorful, caricatured heads; mathematical formulas are on blackboards in the background.
An actor in a mustard vest sits in a tall black-and-white striped armchair, surrounded by four large, caricatured portraits hanging on the stage under a yellow lamp-shaped neon light.
Three actors in colorful tutus lift a fourth person horizontally in the air on a dark stage with a yellow neon and a striped armchair in the background.
An actor in a striped shirt and a voluminous light blue tutu leans deeply forward with hands near their head, against a black stage background.
A group of actors in black jumpsuits forms a circular frame with their hands over a kneeling actress on a checkered stage; on the left, a figure in a light tutu joins the arranged pose.
photos: HaWa

Trailer

trailer: Mateusz Dziworski

Poster

Theater poster for the play "My Shadow Is Pink," depicting a stylized white horse, beneath which a vibrant, jagged pink shadow is cast on a dark gray background.
poster: Klaudia Laszczyk