Byk (BULL)

Life is a theatre. Life is a maze. Sometimes there is no escape from either of them. Szczepan Twardoch’s latest work about a man with a past but no future.

Robert Mamok is a fifty-year-old divorcee struggling with his identity. The man is entangled in a reputation scandal from which there seems to be no good way out. The story is completed by a family secret and complicated relationships with loved ones, rooted in a strict Silesian upbringing.
Mamok enters the stage and begins an intense monologue, word by word reckoning with his past, himself and the world at large. With the strength of a wild animal, he throws accusations, asks questions, wants to discover what is happening to him. And who he is.

Only you ever spoke to me like that, Robbie-boy, remember? Nah… you don’t, do ya? Head’s all empty now. Nothin’ left up there, not a bloody thing. Then Robbie, damn fool, would show his school report. In high school, the ‘so talented, yet so lazy’ started. But you would always give me money for the report. Secretly, when no one could see. Don’t be tellin’ yer gran. And then gran Hilda would come, and she would also shove banknotes into my hand. Don’t be tellin’ yer grandad, aye?
(book extract)

Byk is the first work written by Szczepan Twardoch with the theatre stage in mind. It is published in book form with illustrations by Bartek Arobal Kociemba.

The description comes from the publisher’s website.