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We warmly invite you to the performance Meltdown<\/em> by Ma\u0142gorzata Lech.
The show was created as part of the OFF Polska program organized by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, and it will be presented twice at the Nowa Huta Cultural Centre!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 24, 2025 | 7:00 PM
October 25, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Studio KCC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUY TICKET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MELTDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A documentary performance directed by Ma\u0142gorzata Lech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce it builds up, it has to explode,\u201d<\/em> says the mother of a neurodivergent daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They arrive for a shared holiday with the mother\u2019s partner. There should be fun at the beach, the sound of the waves, and relaxation on an inflatable mattress. But will it all start again? Will what has built up finally burst?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their story begins in 1997, when the word neurodiversity<\/em> was not yet present in public awareness, not used by psychologists or psychiatrists, and when Asperger\u2019s syndrome was rarely diagnosed in young girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stage \u201chere and now\u201d encompasses several moments across their timeline, culminating in a seaside holiday as the daughter turns eighteen. It is a documentary love story \u2013 about the power of the mother\u2013daughter bond: a story both similar to many others and yet unlike any other. A docu-drama, a docu-thriller, a rollercoaster full of unexpected turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performance features both professional actors and the real-life protagonists, who appear as themselves in the film layer of the piece. What makes it exceptional is the honesty and self-irony with which they tell their own story \u2013 their determination to fight for autonomy, for the possibility of separate lives, despite being bound by the strongest and most difficult of ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not only a retrospective account of a teenage pregnancy, trauma, family oppression, and the lack of systemic support \u2013 a fight for dignity and the possibility of a \u201cnormal\u201d life, with the constant question of what \u201cnormal\u201d really means and who defines it. Above all, it is a story about the spectrum of womanhood. About shame and shamelessness. About the beauty and sorrows of too-early motherhood, and the longing to escape from it. About escapes that succeeded, distant journeys, a passionate love affair, and the sometimes desperate desire to dive deep into the fullness and potential of female experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also a road story, a journey towards something better \u2013 \u201cfrom somewhere, you don\u2019t know where, but you know for sure that at the end there is something better than what you have now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mother \u2013 the central figure \u2013 would never call herself a heroine. She cannot undo the painful past, but her present and her future are hers alone. She does not merely try to survive \u2013 she fights for herself and for her daughter, without calculation, paying any price \u2013 here and now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Script & Direction: Ma\u0142gorzata Lech<\/strong>
Movement Direction: Iga Za\u0142\u0119czna<\/strong>
Video Projections: Peter Fick<\/strong>
Music: Kamil Malchar<\/strong>
Stage Objects: Kamila Lech<\/strong>
Lighting Design: Daniel \u201cQman\u201d Ku\u017ama<\/strong>
Production & Coordination: Jurgita Zaikauskas, Marta Pawlik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cast<\/strong>
Mother: Katarzyna Kopczyk<\/strong>
Daughter: Karolina Lichoci\u0144ska<\/strong>
Also featuring Agnieszka and Natalia as themselves<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual Identity: Paulina Pa\u017adziera<\/strong>
Photography: Tobiasz Papuczys<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"yoast_head":"\nDocumentary Performance \u201cMeltdown\u201d - Krakow Choreographic Centre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/documentary-performance-meltdown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Documentary Performance \u201cMeltdown\u201d - Krakow Choreographic Centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/documentary-performance-meltdown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Krakow Choreographic Centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/kcc.nck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-06T08:51:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-06T08:51:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/baner-meltdown.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"830\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"KCC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"KCC\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/documentary-performance-meltdown\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/documentary-performance-meltdown\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"KCC\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/09a344327ebc9be52fb6b2a85b949124\"},\"headline\":\"Documentary Performance \u201cMeltdown\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-06T08:51:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-06T08:51:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/documentary-performance-meltdown\/\"},\"wordCount\":509,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Bez kategorii\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/documentary-performance-meltdown\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nck.krakow.pl\/kcc\/en\/documentary-performance-meltdown\/\",\"name\":\"Documentary Performance \u201cMeltdown\u201d - 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