Tuwim for Adults' is a portrait of Julian Tuwim, a poet with a very distinctive attitude to life, human vices, customs and politics, full of wit and swagger.

This sarcastic, nonchalant approach was characteristic of much of his work, especially from the interwar period. This was the time of the youth so mythologised by the poet, the time of the "Pikador" (a literary cafe of which he was a co-founder), "Qui Pro Quo", the "Black Cat" and other cabarets scattered around Warsaw, and finally the time of "Skamander" - the legendary poetic group founded by Julian Tuwim, as well as Antoni Słonimski, Jan Lechoń, Kazimierz Wierzyński and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. "Skamander" had an overwhelming influence on artistic life, as well as on customs and social life throughout the interwar period.

Julian Tuwim was a representative of Warsaw's liberal intelligentsia; he mocked backwardness, bourgeois quaintness, and the cult of materialist values. He went through an evolution from criticism of certain elements of political reality to total dissent with the rule of the Sanacja elite when, in the 1930s, they began to come dangerously close to groups with an anti-Semitic and fascist programme.

The performance 'Tuwim for Adults' first shows the young poet's delight in the world, and then his growing distance from reality and increasing disapproval of the social mechanisms he observes. It also presents a second protagonist besides the poet himself. It is... Warsaw. The beloved city to which Tuwim returned - it would seem - against all reason, driven by pure poetic intuition. Or love.

We offer a selection of works from various Tuwim 'drawers'. The performance is also imbued with an atmosphere close to the poet - one of vitality, joie de vivre, wit and... a touch of melancholy. It includes (in the form of songs) both satirical and lyrical texts, all interspersed with fragments of poetry and prose.