We have the pleasure to extend to you an offer of an open air performance by the Form Theatre titled "Battle of Carnival and Lent". The story of the play we recommend goes back into the distant times of Princess Jadwiga (1186-1234) and Prince Henry the Bearded rule. It is a funny medley of court, monastery and village life scenes. Jadwiga depicted in those circumstances (she was regarded saint already during her lifetime) is a very humane, ordinary woman whose life beside miracles is also full of very prosaic happenings. Some of those are comic but they do not take from her the seriousness or due majesty.
   This is the main plot of the story:
...Somewhere in an inn, outside the city walls there are city folks dancing and having fun. Their laud laughter and cries reach to the nearby monastery and interrupt the silence and common prayer of a pious monk and a no less pious nun. The conflict aroused in this way is widely spoken about in the Prince court. The feasting crowd dragged before the majesty of the rulers is in for the highest punishment...
   The idea of a conflict between the Lent and Carnival has been developed since the early middle ages and today it still stays fresh provoking a lot of emotions and reflection. The play is performed highly imaginatively with a lot of lightness, spiced with a good sense of humor. Everything happens in the light of burning torches - a scenery inspired by the paintings of Peter Breughel. Medieval music in the background.
   The performance "Battle of Carnival and Lent" directed by Józef Markocki has been so far played many times at the theatre festivals and shown on open air stages in Poland and abroad. It has always been enthusiastically received by the audiences.