Adapted from the classic Polish comedy ‘Pan Jowialski’, written in 1832 by Aleksander Fredro, Poland’s greatest comic playwright, which satirises in the character of Helena the extremes of the then fashionable ‘Romantic’ movement.

In it the Jovialski country estate is the setting for a practical joke played by Janusz, a boorish landowner, on two travelling students, Ludmir and Victor.

The joke backfires, leading to his own discomfiture, the victory of traditional good sense over romantic nonsense, a mother’s reunion with her long-lost child, and an ending in which true love is triumphant.

6 male 3 female
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