Gosia Wdowik
Maker
During her studies (master’s programme at DAS Theatre Academy of Theatre and Dance, 2022), theatre-maker Gosia Wdowik worked on the topic of burn-out and investigated the space between being exhausted and self-determination by applying methods drawn from activism to her practice. A major question for Wdowik is how to create change and productions from an exhausted body and a burning necessity.
Biography
Gosia Wdowik is a theatre-maker and active member of GILDIA (the Union of Polish Theatre-makers). She completed the master’s programme at DAS Theatre Academy of Theatre and Dance. During her studies she worked on the topic of burn-out and investigated the space between being exhausted and self-determination by applying methods drawn from activism to her practice. A major question for Wdowik is how to create change and productions from an exhausted body and a burning necessity.
In her recent performance Shame (NOWY TEATR, Warsaw) she explored social shame in relation to the working class across three generations of women in her family. In the past, she has created productions including: If you lived here (Mousonturm, Frankfurt) with Tamara Antonijevic; Transit Monumental (SpielArt, Munich); Fiasko (Staadtheater, Darmstadt) and Return of Goddess (Sophiensaele, Berlin) – all with the K.A.U collective; Meisjes (Theater Studio, Warsaw) and Voetballers (TR Warschau) – about the emancipation of the body.
Press
"She was a friend of someone else raises issues we rarely think about yet."
pzazz
"Wdowik invites us into a sluggish, dense and torpid world made of spilled glasses, heavy limbs and even heavier bedcovers in which everything is literally fuming with exhaustion."
Persinsala Teatro
"Poignant to see how role-affirming increasing conservatism is; how women must constantly fight for their position and freedom. In She was a friend of someone else, Wdowik exposes it as alarmingly as it is disillusioned."
Theaterkrant.nl
"With a powerful dramaturgy and a minimalist direction, Polish theatre-maker Gosia Wdowik explores the link between burnout and activism."
i.c.a.p.
"How do you keep fighting for something that can disappear at any moment?"
De Standaard
