
Once Upon A Time
AN ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF FAIRY TALES
"Once upon a time" (in Polish : "A bylo to tak") plays with fairy tales conventions and stereotypes, proposing an alternative world of fairy tales full of irony and absurd but also very close to the reality at the same time
What if the happy-ever-after of your favorite characters wasn't that happy after all?
What if the Charming Prince didn't want to stay with Sleeping Beauty once woken up?
What if Genie didn't have any wishes to fulfill?
Finally, what if Alice's adventures in Wonderland weren't just an innocent dream ?
Written during the first lockdown and directed mainly from my living room, through Zoom and in Parisian parks, after months of postponing and reprogramming, the play could finally be staged.
I had a pleasure to put in pieces and direct it with an explosive group of actors from our company Art-Ci Art-Là.









Cast:
Krzysztof Boduszek
Piotr Czarzasty
Katarzyna Cichocka
Anna Couval
Malwina Gautier
Lionel Grzegorczyk
Grzegorz Onyszkiewicz
Anna Pujdak
Anna Wnękowicz
Anna Z.-Ray
Music :
Directedy by :
Anna Z-Ray
Written by :
Anna Zagrajczuk-Ray
Adaptation of three short stories by:
- A. Sapkowski ("Złote popołudnie" / "Golden Afternoon", 1997)
- N. Gaiman ("Calendar of Tales", 2013)
- S. Mrożek ("Śpiąca Królewna"/ "Sleeping beauty")
About the play in media:
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Web : Article in iFrancja
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TV : Reportage in TVP Polonia


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