The play is directed by Britain’s Dan Jemmett, with sets designed by Dick Bird.
Maiden’s Vows is a comedy of manners about two sisters whose pledge never to marry comes to nothing.
Jemmett told Poland's PAP news agency that what he initially thought to be a simple comedy in rehearsals proved to be a far more complex drama.
"In the motives of the main characters, I sensed an element of cruelty that I failed to notice on first reading of the text," he said.
In Jammett’s production, the action of the comedy, written in 1832, is moved forward to 1973.
The director explains that he was inspired by the popular 1970s British sitcom Man About the House, which featured a man sharing a flat with two single women.
"I was intrigued by the parallel between the sitcom’s heroines and the fate of Klara and Aniela, the maidens from Fredro’s comedy," Jammett told the Polish state news agency. "Klara and Aniela would like to live without men, but they cannot; in fact, they do not want to, and eventually they will not."
Jemmett has worked closely with the Polski Theatre for many years, his previous productions in Warsaw including Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (2011) and The Tempest (2012) and John Ford’s Tis Pity She’s a Whore (2016).
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