Songs by teacher Leszek Idzikowski, the one-act play “Toksyczni” and a parody of a Latin American soap opera – all this could be seen and heard during the eighth edition of the English Language Festival, held on Thursday, 11 December, in the Forum cinema auditorium.
Over the years, the event has had various names. “The idea was the same – to motivate young people to learn texts and songs in English,” Leszek Idzikowski told the IstotneInformacje.pl portal. The programme of the eighth edition included, among other things, five of his songs arranged by Mateusz Celmer.
Everyone gathered in the Forum cinema auditorium also had the opportunity to watch Idzikowski’s one-act play. “Toksyczni is a play about how easily people succumb to bad influences, when they should be stronger and believe in themselves,” the teacher emphasises.
The main character of the play is a young woman. She wants to pursue an education and have broad horizons, but her boyfriend is interested only in money and parties. Her mother believes that her daughter should have plastic surgery. The girl concludes that she has fallen into depression, driven there by those closest to her. The one-act play ends with the questions: who am I? what am I doing? what do I really want? “In my opinion, the play ends optimistically. The main character will have her way,” says the author of “Toksyczni”.
The parody of the Latin American soap opera “Cream and crime”, written several years ago by Idzikowski’s former student Noemi Stysiak, prompted bursts of laughter. “The text has not aged at all. It is a play against all kinds of prejudice – racial and linguistic. It mocks them all,” says the English teacher from I LO.
The Forum cinema auditorium was packed. During breaks between the successive programme items, Leszek Idzikowski interviewed members of the audience – in Shakespeare’s language, of course.
(GA report)