After a tragic scooter accident involving a teenage girl, three families are forced to confront their secrets and personal failures. The pianist, overprotective mother and policeman
face questions of guilt, sacrifice and parental responsibility.
Krystian Lupa – a controversial and probably the most outstanding living Polish theater director of internationally recognized plays. His accolades include the Europe Theater Prize, the Nestroy-Theaterpreis, he has also been awarded with the French Order of Arts and Letters.
“Let’s try to jump into the well” is a road movie that has only one location – the stage. Whether it presents a road to failure or success is irrelevant. The audience can watch the rehearsals for Kafka’s “The Trial”. They can observe the creative process – often ambiguous, sometimes incomprehensible. A process we have to judge for ourselves.
Lupa invites his actors to jump with him “into a well”, at the bottom of which no revelation awaits.
Liberating, primal dance gives the dancing women power to emancipate. Mutual exchange of experiences between the choreographer and the participants of the workshop, allows us to observe the process of their transformation.