“I took grumbling tinged with self-concern, a new caution and seriousness in how I treat myself, to be the first symptom of old age,” writes Katarzyna Sobczuk, tenderly and ironically tracing the signs of a gradual transformation. She turns her attention to middle age and its paradoxes: being the child of ageing parents while at the same time becoming an increasingly older parent to one’s own child.

This is not psychological theatre, nor a realistic autopsy of adulthood. Rather, it is an intimate catalogue of minor, everyday revelations – an attentive, poetic account of “life lived in between”.

“I still know nothing about real old age, but I have some idea of it. Yesterday I ate some soup, rinsed the plate and placed another dish on it (a croquette). At that moment I felt I could write something – that I already knew something.”

Small Empiria proposes a theatre of delicacy, attentiveness and reflection, a monodrama that speaks of what so often goes unnoticed, yet shapes us more deeply than major events.

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