That's what I think they got me

A
A
M
Ama
Mama
I live
I walk
I hear
I feel
I see
I
hate
Ah! It burns, it burns, it burns my hands, it burns my legs, it burns my stomach - uh!
Ah, ah, my mind's on fire, my brain's on fire, I think I'm covered in it!
Ah, ah, uh!

“I think they've got me covered” - is a farce about death, an afterlife, a farce about fear. A perverse joke set in hell. The three protagonists find themselves in a place of no return, where they are forced to tell their stories. Although they share a space, they do not form a community - each is focused solely on himself. Only collaboration could give them a chance to get out, but they fail to see this, trapped in the circles of their own personalities. The play was inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's drama At a Closed Door. The performance uses puppets created live from clay - a material that emphasises the theme of transience and physicality.

The project was realised at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Białystok Branch, as part of the Technique of working with actors in a puppet set.

Direction, scenography: Lesia Pasichnyk
Cast: Magdalena Kamińska, Tymoteusz Jucha, Julia Rotter
Artistic and pedagogical supervision: Bernarda Bielenia

Photo by Bogumił Gudalewski. Photo from the collection of the Bialystok Puppet Theatre