Trash Story

An award-winning play about the impact of war on women, Trash Story is a complex and harrowing tale. Told through the eyes of Ursulka, the play poses important questions about violence, both historical and contemporary, and the secrets it leaves behind. The action is set in a house formerly owned by Germans in the Recovered Territories, now inhabited by Poles, and asks vital questions about the continuity of historical experience. “I imagine memory as a net which we throw to recover waste. As it falls deeper it catches the heaviest waste accumulated at the bottom. This play is full of such trash: historical, familial, concealed. Our collective memory is so littered and until we clean it up, the future generations will not be able to build anything on it,” says playwright Magda Fertacz.