The Damned
Zmierzch bogów · after the screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti
Visconti's film adapted for the stage and played site-specifically in the historic pump hall of the Bydgoszcz Waterworks Museum, with a score by Karol Nepelski and a company of thirteen.
About the production
Visconti's 1969 film follows a German industrial dynasty through the first years of the Nazi state, as the family destroys itself from inside. Raźniak adapted the screenplay for the stage and moved it out of the theatre building altogether: the performance is played in the pump hall of the Bydgoszcz Waterworks Museum.
Karol Nepelski wrote the score, Barbara Guzik the set and costumes; the company is thirteen strong, with Kamilla Baar appearing as a guest. The performance runs 150 minutes with an interval and uses strobe lighting.
- Premiere
- 19 June 2026
- Venue
- Pump hall, Waterworks Museum, ul. Gdańska 242, Bydgoszcz
- Running time
- 150 minutes with an interval
- Note
- Strobe lighting is used.
Creative team
- Direction & adaptation
- Waldemar Raźniak
- Music
- Karol Nepelski
- Translation
- Halina Kralowa
- Set & costumes
- Barbara Guzik
- Light
- Ada Bystrzycka
- Choreography
- Oskar Malinowski
- Text
- Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
- Translation
- Halina Kralowa
- Cast
- Kamilla Baar (guest), Paweł L. Gilewski, Mirosław Guzowski, Marian Jaskulski, Karol Franek Nowiński, Emilia Piech, Jerzy Pożarowski, Michalina Rodak, Aleksandra Stasik, Michał Surówka, Marcin Zawodziński, Bruno Maciejewski, Oskar Ruppel
Photographs · Natalia Kabanow
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