"It’s a story that needs to be told, and this is a production that shows Werenowska at her finest"
BritishTheatre.com
Mercury Theatre Colchester, Wiltshire Creative and Unity Theatre Liverpool presents Silence by Nicola Werenowska and directed by Jo Newman.
What holds families together? What tears them apart? What’s brewing in the silences?
1996. London. It’s Ewa’s birthday. Her daughter Anna is coming home from university with a secret to share but Maria has some news of her own. As wartime memories of Siberia resurface, old steps are retraced to uncover the secrets of the past and a Polish heritage that unites and divides them.
Nicola Werenowska’s funny and fascinating new play hurtles between Warsaw and London over two decades and three generations of a Polish/British family.
"Catch it if you can: this is a delicate and bold piece of work"
THE TELEGRAPH on Tu I Teraz by Nicola Werenowska
"Thoughtfully crafted, deeply absorbing and sensitively directed by Jo Newman"
THE STAGE on Hansel
See Silence at the Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich on Monday 5th November at 7.45pm. Tickets are £10 full price and £8 concessions.
Polish Translation:
Co utrzymuje więzi rodzinne? Co je rozrywa? Co czai się w chwilach ciszy?
1996 rok, Londyn, urodziny Ewy. Jej córka, Anna, wraca z uczelni z sekretem, którym chce się podzielić, lecz Maria ma do przekazania własne wieści. Gdy powracają wojenne wspomnienia o Syberii, prześledzone zostają dawne wydarzenia w celu odkrycia tajemnic przeszlości i polskiego dziedzictwa, które łączy i dzieli te kobiety.
Spektakl w języku angielskim.