Amateurs (Amatorzy)

Get in, we're already late.

Let's wait for Tomek and Marcin.

Let's go!

How do you like the music?

Shitty.

-What? -Shitty!

Come on!

THEATER FESTIVAL OF DISABLED ARTISTS

Ariel!

Hurry up!

Krzysiek!

-Let's go! -Come on! They're calling us!

Come on!

Come on!

You got a prize! Everyone's waiting!

-What prize? -The first prize!

Please welcome! The Personal Property Office!

Bravo!

Congratulations to your theater group!

Thank you very much.

We didn't expect it. It's a great surprise.

This prize is really important for us.

It will help us make a show

in a professional theater, which has always been our dream.

-About us! -About us.

-About Zebra! -About Zorba.

A big cheer for the Personal Property Office!

-The Personal Property Office! -The Personal Property Office!

What can the Gdańsk Theater Group do?

-They can bite us! Hands up! -We've got it!

As you know,

we received a Ministry grant…

Please, take a seat.

A grant to promote such a stage show.

It's always been my dream to perform on this stage.

I used to come here with my dad.

Our group has also dreamed about playing on stage.

And dreams do come true.

What's important…

This show must be…

related to Shakespeare somehow.

We got the prize. We were going to keep working on our show.

Yes, I know, but it offers more opportunities.

Fragments of Hamlet, Macbeth.

I'll be the supervisor.

-They don't speak too well. -They'll learn to speak.

You want to protect them their whole life?

People need challenges.

No, I'm sorry, it's ridiculous.

Come on, let's go.

Our agreement was totally different.

We were going to stage our show, and not…

Come on, let's go.

-Goodbye! -Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Let's go, Michał.

Sir, how do you see our plan?

-Shakespeare is a serious issue. -Guys, wait!

Isn't he?

-You don't pronounce "R." -But I pronounce "S."

Come on!

-Goodbye. -Goodbye.

-Krzysiek, am I going to play? -Am I?

Are we going to play at all?

I don't know.

-What are we going to play? -What are we going to play?

Get in.

Don't worry so much!

We want to invite someone famous to the project to get more money.

And raise its status.

-We're supposed to play Shakespeare. -And you will.

They will play it. Beautifully, truthfully, in their own way, as usual.

Mom, for you, they'll even dance Swan Lake.

Those pricks don't care what they're going to play.

I know.

Which Shakespeare?

Don't know. I don't even know if I'll do it.

How about Romeo and Juliet?

I staged it with your dad in high school.

What if this Shakespeare is a chance for you?

You went to see the director with a hairdo like this?

-Yes. -I need to comb your hair.

Lights!

More lights!

But you're going to have rehearsals on the small stage.

-Welcome aboard! -Ahoy!

This is our winning group and our new fellow colleagues.

The Lost Property Office.

"Personal."

Yes, of course.

We're waiting for Wiktoria, who will join our project.

Not yet… I'll call you, okay?

We'll be working on a play by Shakespeare.

And the premiere will take place

on the World Down Syndrome Day.

Why don't we make a round?

What do you mean?

To get to know each other.

-Hello! -Hello, Ms. Wiktoria!

-Hi, Star! -Good morning.

Our celebrity has arrived!

-Thank you! -I have a question!

Do you ever use the toilet?

Stop it!

Can you hold it, please?

I'll turn my phone off…

Have you heard of William Shakespeare?

-He created scenes. -Lovely! Of course!

-He wrote poems. -Wonderful.

He played in TV series, porn films, and he was a DJ.

-In cabarets… -No, he played in a soap opera…

He was a writer, right?

William Shakespeare was no dancer or singer.

He was the best playwright in the world.

And a great poet.

Most importantly, Shakespeare gave us the key to understand ourselves.

-You have to… -Excuse me.

To ask courageously on stage, "Who am I?"

I know who I am.

You're a great artist and a star.

For us.

-See you tomorrow! -Bye, Wiki!

Wiktoria, come with us!

Come on!

-Bye! -Bye!

What about the flowers?

Ms. Wiktoria!

Thank you!

-I thought you were much shorter. -Call me Wiki.

Krzysiek.

Can you pick me up tomorrow morning? My car broke down.

Can you?

-Sure. -You can?

That's great! Bye!

See you!

"To be, or not to be, that is the question…"

"To be, or not to be, that is the question…"

-"Whether 'tis…" -Mom, where are the gaskets?

I put them over there. Don't disturb us.

"Whether 'tis nobler…"

"Whether 'tis nobler…"

"in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune…"

Mary, sit next to me. We must prepare it really well.

-"this mortal coil…" -"this mortal coil…"

Take a seat. And focus.

-"Must give us pause…" -"May give us…"

Must!

-"Must give us pause." -"Must give us pause."

"There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life."

"There's the respect…"

-"That makes…" -"That makes…"

-"that makes our life hard…" -Hard, yes.

That theater director, how much is he going to pay you?

-Pay? You mean, remuneration. -"Pay" is easier to pronounce.

I don't know. I haven't talked to him.

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

and thus the native hue of resolution

is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought…" Jesus Christ.

"And enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard…"

This is too difficult. They won't learn it.

They won't understand anything.

How about something…

Oh, gosh!

Come on, Mary. What have you learned?

"To be, or not to be." That's all I remember.

Ania!

Renia! Janek!

Here you go, Mary.

-Hi! I'm so sorry… -Hi.

I'm here. Thanks for waiting.

How do you like Shakespeare?

If I had a boyfriend like Hamlet, I'd kick his ass!

Was Ophelia with or without a disability?

We don't know that.

Krzysiek?

Who's going to play Ophelia?

The director!

-Hello! -Hey!

Hello!

We have a tradition in the theater. We don't drink on stage.

I've already filled it so I'll drink it, okay?

I'd like to ask you. How do you understand this text?

Excuse me, before we discuss the text…

We don't know each other at all.

A few words about each of us…

What's your name?

-Ania. -Great.

Ania, can you tell us anything about yourself?

I'm really curious.

I'm an open-minded person.

-Do you like theater? -I love it.

This is what we've got in common.

My name is Michał.

It's nice to take part in this workshop.

We can have fun and learn something.

We can understand something.

It's nice to be an actor who knows what it's all about.

My name is Tomek.

Tomasz.

I just want to be the best actor…