Don’t smack your lips
Don’t talk with your mouth full
Sit up straight
Don’t eat chocolate before dinner!
Turn off this TV show
Turn off your mobile phone
Don’t play so much
Wash your hands
Don’t make silly faces!
Wash your hands

What can you do and what shouldn’t you do? Is it possible to fool around all day, eating sweet popcorn and playing games? The list of prohibitions in everyday life is long, but in theatre, through magic, you can allow yourself a little bit of madness! The “Wild Play” performance features conversations between father and son around the boundaries between imposed rules and carefree fun and games, becoming the starting point for playing Theatre.

What may happen if father and son join forces and come up with a show together? “Wild Play” is a series of games and activities that make the theatre a place to get free from the usual rules. The creators play with situations familiar to anyone who was raised by someone or has raised someone themselves. The performance asks questions about when a list of rules and prohibitions is necessary and shows how play can be taken seriously. Behind a world of scattered socks, unwashed hands and wacky antics, is there a completely different method in the madness? The creators of the show take a look at it with humour and attentiveness.

“Wild Play” came about through conversations with my son Jędrek (aged 8) – says the director of the show. – I wanted him to experience the magic of theatre as a crazy, open and beautiful place. And at the same time, thanks to Jędrek, I tried to understand what to change in my theatre to make it appeal to children. At first, I asked questions as embarrassing as “Would children like this?”, to which the reasonable answer was “How should I know what all children like?”. 

I was looking for joyful ideas. I wanted to be adventurous and have fun, and at the same time I had concerns as a responsible parent. 

How do you combine the desire to engage in antics with good upbringing, self-control, constraints? 

It is a show about how joy or fun is a value in itself and is sometimes more important than rules. And it is also, of course, a show about the magic of theatre!