Teatr im. Modrzejewskiej w Legnicy  

by Robert Urbanski 
Director: Jacek Glomb 
Script/ Adaptation: Robert Urbanski 
Scenography and costumes: Malgorzata Bulanda 
Choreography: Kamila Jankowska, Witold Jurewicz 
Music: Bartek Straburzynski 
 
Lemkos are the Rusyns, inhabitants of Polish and Slavic part of the Carpathian Mountains. After the 2nd World War Polish authorities displaced and transferred them to Recovered Territories. They were accused (rightly only in the part) of supporting the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (that was responsible among other things for mass murders of Polish civilians). Lemkos, dispersed in exile, were mostly assimilated in the process of Polonization. And generally they were never allowed to get their native land back. 
 
"Lemko" is the performance based on the authentic accounts of Lemkos, the victims of historical turmoil and thinking in the category of collective responsibility, the witnesses of disintegration of their own ethnical identity. But still the performance is the artistic creation, not a document: full of music and dance attempt of presentation of complex history of Carpathian Mountains highlanders in the play that consists of words, colours and sounds. 
 
The main character, Orest, is a venerable, advanced in years Lemko. He is visited by his children, because he wants to announce them that he is going to die quite soon. But Orest can not do that by the time he will tell the story of his life that the children never asked about...