To perform Sienkiewicz's entire Trilogy in one go is crazy. And thus we have a crazy play. It is funny, it is fearsome, it is surprising and even moving.

On the stage we have the ruins of a church. Beneath the alter, featuring the Virgin Mary as she appeared in Chęstochowa, there are hospital beds. The play begins in a serious note, and starts from the end of the Trilogy. Tadeusz Huk is giving a funeral oration: "Marshal Wołodyjowski! They are singing your praises, and yet you do not rise, you do not seize your sword! Another war is on the horizon. Christianity and the Fatherland are threatened. Yet the heroes, worn out by war without end as Sienkiewicz wrote about it in his Trilogy, are weary and lying in their hospital beds. But, they rise, they take on their roles, they do so with all the zest they can muster. Their roles are all conditioned - and - as we will learn soon enough; this is no coincidence. The fact that the actors are too old to play the roles that have been assigned to them allows us a better view of the characters they play. It allows us to leave behind our habits, bread by traditional readings of these books in s