The Trap (1982) is Tadeusz Różewicz's latest published play. Its Polish preview took place in 1984 on our stage, and it was directed by Kazimierz Braun, the then artistic director of Teatr Wspolczesny.

 photo Bartlomiej Sowa

Yet, The Trap is not a biographical play, which Różewicz himself often said directly: „My work consisted in the abandon of so-called factography. The process consisted in swallowing the largest possible amount of information: hundreds or even thousands of pages, to pass them later through “my machine” and... abandon to a maximum any documents, letters, etc... (…)”.

The text of The Trap – says Gabriel Gietzky, director of the play – grows into a human epic of a grotesque misplacement, misfit. The Trap tells us about the mystery of the Creator and creation, but also asks us questions concerning each and everyone of us: to which degree do we have courage to measure ourselves with life, how do we take challenges of contemporary world, caught in the trap of loneliness, the trap of biology, the trap of life, the trap of destiny, the trap of history?