Worst Case Scenario
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Worst Case Scenario is an autobiographical performance based on the experience of living with chronic anxiety.
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The title refers to an exercise in which we confront our fears by imagining all the worst possible scenarios. This mechanism becomes the foundation of the dramaturgical structure—opening a space for absurd, recurring, dark, and disturbingly familiar narratives that emerge in anxious states. What if we thought of the worst-case scenarios—those things we fear might happen—not as threats, but as potentials, as pathways to unexplored abilities we avoid out of fear? What if we used their creative potential and treated them as performative tools and strategies that could open us up to the specific sensitivity and perception of reality that come with an anxious body and mind?
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- Worst Case Scenario is an attempt to treat the stage as a space for free speculation and critical attentiveness to chronic anxiety. It is a work about breaking through shame and isolation by diving into darkness—not to get stuck in it, but to find, in its shadow, creative potential, closeness, community, and new ways of being. Isn’t theatre the perfect space to explore what might happen if we start treating our limitations and “deviations from the norm” as a direction for change? What is the creative and critical potential of the anxious condition?
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Creddits
- Concept, direction
- Aleksandra Jakubczak
- Performance, creation
- Justyna Wasilewska, Rob Wasiewicz
- Dramaturgy
- Aleksandra Jakubczak, Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
- Text
- Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak, Justyna Wasilewska, Rob Wasiewicz, Aleksandra Jakubczak
- Space, objects
- Aleksandra Jakubczak, Karolina Pawelczyk
- Music
- Krzysztof Kaliski
- Lighting design
- Wojciech Sobolewski
- Set design consultant
- Maria Komarova
- Participation in the process
- Jaśmina Polak
- Creative producer
- Michał Rogulski ÆFEKT
- Curator
- Andrzej Pakuła
- Production
- Kaja Kawecka, Krystian Piotr, Mikołaj Fajfer
- Art process coordination
- Marta Krawczyk, Dorota Lewandowska, Karolina Czarnecka
- Communications
- Dagmara Torłop, Jagoda Kalisz
- Concept, direction
- Dodatkowy pokaz odbywa się 5 września o godzinie 14:30 w ramach Generation After 9. Showcase.
