WORST CASE SCENARIO
An autobiographical performance based on the experience of living with chronic anxiety.
IDEA, DIRECTED BY Aleksandra Jakubczak
PERFORMANCE, CREATION Justyna Wasilewska, Rob Wasiewicz
DRAMATURGY Aleksandra Jakubczak, Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
TEXT Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak, Justyna Wasilewska, Rob Wasiewicz, Aleksandra Jakubczak
SPACE, OBJECTS Aleksandra Jakubczak, Karolina Pawelczyk
MUSIC Krzysztof Kaliski
LIGHT DESIGN / PROMO PHOTOS Wojciech Sobolewski
SET DESIGN CONSULTANT Maria Komarova
PARTICIPATION IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS Jaśmina Polak
CREATIVE PRODUCER Michał Rogulski ÆFEKT
CURATOR Andrzej Pakuła
PRODUCTION Kaja Kawecka, Krystian Piotr, Mikołaj Fajfer
COORDINATION OF THE ART PROCESS Marta Krawczyk, Dorota Lewandowska, Karolina Czarnecka
COMMUNICATION Dagmara Torłop, Jagoda Kalisz
PREMIERE 13. 6. 2025 @Pawilon, Poznań, PL
Worst Case Scenario is an autobiographical performance based on the experience of living with chronic anxiety.
The title refers to an exercise in which we confront our fears by imagining all the worst possible scenarios. This mechanism becomes the foundation of the dramaturgical structure — opening a space for absurd, recurring, dark, and disturbingly familiar narratives that emerge in anxious states.
How can we develop new strategies to support and empower ourselves and others, based on experiences typically labeled as “weaknesses” or “disorders”? What do our fears tell us about the reality we live in? Beyond the necessary and valuable strategies of coping with anxiety and the therapeutic treatment of individuals with generalized anxiety disorder, shouldn’t we also examine the environmental and systemic factors that fuel or generate these fears? Aside from the marginalization of the “weakest individuals” and the management and capitalization of fear and unease — is there another way?
Worst Case Scenario is an attempt to treat the stage as a space for free speculation and critical attentiveness to chronic anxiety. It is a work about breaking through shame and isolation by diving into darkness—not to get stuck in it, but to find, in its shadow, creative potential, closeness, community, and new ways of being. Isn’t theatre the perfect space to explore what might happen if we start treating our limitations and “deviations from the norm” as a direction for change? What is the creative and critical potential of the anxious condition?
