Dom Qultury at Open'er! This year at the festival we invite you again to FUN in a unique space dedicated to various performing arts. For 4 days you will see: Klub Komediowy, Gender Blender, Ciężki Brokat & Glitter Confusion, Gruba i Głupia and Stand-up Polska.
July 2 / 17:30-18:50 / Fat and Dumb / „Very Funny”
July 3 / 17:30-18:45 / Fat and Dumb / „Very Sad”
July 4 / 17:00-18:30 / Fat and Dumb / „Very Cheap”
July 5 / 17:00-18:30 / Fat and Dumb / „Very Cheap”
A duo formed by Patrycja Kowańska (Fat) and Dominika Knapik (Dumb). The former, born in 1991 in Łódź, is a playwright and writer, a graduate of the Dramaturgy Department at the Directing Faculty of the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. She has created her own performances and collaborated with various artists. The latter, born in Kraków in 1979, is a renowned choreographer, director, and performer. She graduated from the Acting Department of the Kraków AST and was nominated for the POLITYKA’s Passport award in 2015 for her choreography in dramatic theatre.
The artists began their close collaboration a few years ago, working together on productions in both institutional theatres and independent venues: Twitching and Other Games (2021), VALESKA, VALESKA, VALESKA, VALESKA (2022), and Hotel H.**. They also co-created autobiographical monodramas: Agon (2020) by Knapik and Furor (2023) by Kowańska.
As a duo, they take collaboration a step further and appear on stage together. For their trilogy—Very Funny, Very Sad, and Very Cheap, developed since 2023—they coined a new term: “performative epigram.” This format combines elements of stand-up, live tableaux, rapped and sung fragments, unconventional choreography, and the performers’ open display of their laptop screens, revealing their creative process. In the “Very” trilogy, they deliver a tragicomic, daring, and taboo-free story of friendship between two freelancers navigating the precarious theatre market. As Fat and Dumb, they live in constant pursuit of grants and funding, approaching the quest for success with irony. Their stage presence is inspired by Shakespearean jesters—reimagined, in their version, as female fools. They use these characters to perform their privacy, which in their works is always political. They address the body, engage in unconventional dialogues with cultural texts, and reflect on the absurdities of theatre life.
They are also drawn to social issues. As Fat and Dumb, they created Penthesilea. Reconstruction of the Body of Amazons (2023), inviting women with the experience of breast cancer to join them on stage. The “Very…” trilogy premiered at the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival and the Review of Stage Songs in Wrocław, and the artists toured numerous theatres and festivals with these works. The third part, Very Cheap, was produced under the Foundation Kreatura, which they co-founded. In 2024, the duo was nominated for the POLITYKA Passport award.
July 2 / 19:15-20:15 / Klub Komediowy / „This guy is redflag, or the guy your girlfriend warned you about - an improv show
July 3 / 19:15-20:15 / Klub Komediowy / „Everything you want to know about sex but are ashamed to ask - an impro show
The Comedy Club is an independent theatre stage operating in Warsaw since 2014. A basement playground for adults, where American comedy flirts with Polish culture. And although we are known more widely as the creators of the "beautiful and long Apa*tu commercial", the Club is first and foremost a stage, a bar and a creative writers' room. We play original formats and performances of our own production: improvised performances, literary cabaret, as well as stand-up and dubbing - which are various forms of live comedy. We are the leading stage of this type in Warsaw, and (allegedly still) the only comedy club in Poland.
2.07 - This guy is redflag, or the guy your girlfriend warned you about - an impro show
You go to a pizzeria together, order a pie and he always looks at you in silence while you eat not only the middle but also the edges of the pie? You told him that you are a zodiac sign on your first date and he still makes fun of you wearing a pendant with a spell jar (a bottle of wishes)? A sincere apology won't come out of his mouth? I mean, he apologizes, just "sorry, BUT..." Watch out: this guy is redflag!
The Comedy Club invites you to an improv show that should make you wary. The comedians will take on all the bad exes, partners, sex friends and Tinder dates that other girls warned you about, and together we will read the alarm signals in their behavior.
3.07 - Everything you want to know about sex but are ashamed to ask - an impro show
How to spice up your married life in a simple and cheap way? Can two teachers create a relationship free from grades? Can the right shade of e-gadgets reduce the risk of accidents in bed just as the color of a car affects road safety? There are no stupid questions! There are only incompetent answers!
The Comedy Club invites you to an improvised performance in which comedians will address the topics of relationships, relationships, and sex in a funny and even absurd way. A kind of stage (anti) guide: with whom, where, and for how long.
July 2 / 23:30-02:00 / Ciężki Brokat x Glitter Confusion / „Objęcia Zguby”
July 3 / 23:30-02:00 / Ciężki Brokat x Glitter Confusion / „Rezerwat Chwastów”
July 4 / 23:30-02:00 / Ciężki Brokat x Glitter Confusion / „Ekstaza Lunatyków”
July 5 / 23:30-02:00 / Ciężki Brokat x Glitter Confusion / „Wielki Bulbulator”
Ciężki Brokat and Glitter Confusion join forces to create an inclusive queer reality for four nights, where the boundaries between afterparty, performance and dream vision blur.
Ciężki Brokat is a queer collective that has been building safer club spaces for the LGBTQIA+ community, women and POC since 2017, known for their iconic Oddity Parades. Glitter Confusion creates immersive visual and performance experiences: costumes, scenography and performances that bring clubs and festivals to life in Poland and abroad.
2.07 (HEAVY) / Embrace of Loss
From the marble pedestals only shattered dreams and glitter pasted into wrinkles remained - the sublime fell with a flourish. In the sizzling hellish lava, where the apocalypse of defeats paradoxically gives wings, something new is born - the dance of rebirth.
Ciężki Brokat and Glitter Confusion invite you to a dance floor as slippery as a ramp to hell, where ruins sparkle with the fire of transformation, and a fall does not mean the end of the world.
3.07 (BROKAT) / Weed Reserve
From among the forgotten concrete slabs, against all odds, the Weed Reserve grows. Wild, unwanted, but not to be stifled. Where tall civilization has long since fallen on its face, we are putting down indestructible roots and creeping vines in queer disarray.
Ciężki Brokat and Glitter Confusion invite you to a dance floor as slippery as a muddy puddle, where a community flourishes that cannot be weeded.
4.07 (HEASY) / Lunatic Ecstasy
Where consciousness falls into lethargy, somewhere between reality and sleep, Lunatic Ecstasy exists. Gloomy but sweet, nightmarish but fascinating and always not entirely conscious. Here, bodies move faster than neurons fire, and each step is a spell cast by feet in the rhythm of the bass.
Ciężki Brokat and Glitter Confusion invite you into a half-sleep - to a dance floor as slippery as the entrance to a rabbit hole, where dreams are louder and clearer than in everyday life.5.07 (BROKAT) / Wielki Bulbulator
Wielki Bulbulator sits on the underwater throne, steam erupts from its geothermal bowels, reality bubbles and the distinction between reality and a party becomes moist. It moistens the soul and blows queer bass straight into the guts, and reason is covered with a sharp shadow of fog that makes you dance until you drop.
Ciężki Brokat and Glitter Confusion invite you to a deep dance floor as slippery as octopus tentacles, where you will dance with a couple in a pair.
July 2-5 / 20:30-22:00 / Gender Blender
Burlesque - Drag show. Celebration of the body, excess, splendor and freedom. An hour and a half that will transport you to a different consciousness. Are you tired of the festival hustle and bustle? There is no better remedy than a fiery dose of glitter. After such a euphoric shot, nothing will ever be the same. Variety show performed by Polish artists of world renown. The winner of the World Burlesque Games - fiery Red Juliette, stage support Chappell Roan - wonderful Aunt Offka, star of the HBO documentary: "Naked. Loudly. Proudly" - the heavenly voice of Silver Daddy, the host of last year's Equality Parade - the camp champion MaRyja de Mon, the acrobat of Polish boylesque - the divine Paweł Kułaga, performing before Doda's tour - the charismatic Lagoona Aqua Pussy, and the host of the evening will be the creator of the Gender Blender format - Gąsiu! Prepare your mood and fans, because it will be hot!
Starring: MaRyja de Mon / Paweł Kułaga / Lagoona Aqua Pussy / Ciotka Offka / Red Juliette / Silver Daddy
Host: Gąsiu
Warning! The show is intended for adult viewers!
July 4-5 / 19:00-20:15 / Stand-Up Polska
It's already a tradition - the Stand-up Polska team returns to Open'er to prove once again that stage comedy has its permanent, deserved place at the festival. Their performances are not just jokes - apt observations, authenticity and great tempo meet on one stage.
The most expressive personalities of the Polish stand-up scene will perform in front of the audience - each with their own style, topics and approach to reality. This year you will see: Maciej Adamczyk, Jasiek Borkowski, Senio Suarez, Asia Sroka, Tomek Skrzypek