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translation by Bartosz Wierzbięta

costumes and stage design: Magdalena Musiał
music: Piotr Domiński
light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski

cast: Aleksandra Konieczna, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Jan Drawnel, Piotr Rogucki, Christian Emany

George F. Walker Risk Everything's plot can be summarized in two sentences. Some elderly star of the criminal environment decided to steal a sum of 68,000 $. from her bosses. She kept the money hidden behind a TV set, but when she got to the point when it was no longer possible to play dumb, she has returned money to her bosses. Though the synopsis is not very promising, the hour long performance is really funny. Why? Because it parodies the superficiality of so called ‘brutalizm', uses a mass culture icons and, last but not least, it is performed with uncommon distance. (...)
Jarzyna's banter, concentrated on extracting the acting potential of all the performers, apart from being truly funny - not an easy task to achieve in theatre, has an important metatheatrical meaning. Jarzyna has showed his distance to his work, discredited the whole semi-new theatre and put an end to silly deliberations over the brutalism in theatre and alleged shock it caused, and divagations over where does it all happens and is it really of our concern. Well, the story happens in Warsaw and is surely not of our concern, just like the whole Warsaw is not of the Warsaw people concern and opposite. For sure.
Piotr Gruszczyński, Tygodnik Powszechny

premiered: 4 November 2003
approximate running time: 1 hour 10 min. (no intermission)

Performance is presented in a room on Warsaw Railway Station