The Hungry Ones

The premiere of the play took place on the 4. 12. 2022 at the Łaźnia Nowa Theater in Krakow. The project was implemented as part of the Creative Scholarship of the City of Krakow, which Agnieszka Jachym received for its implementation. The project's partner is the Crush On Trash Foundation. The show's program reads: *“One of the basic tricks is to talk, if there is no other way, of hunger as something impersonal, almost abstract, as a phenomenon in itself. Hunger, fight against hunger. Counteracting hunger. Famine. But hunger does not exist apart from the people who endure it. The problem is not hunger, the problem is starving people.“* – Martin Caparros, *Hunger*

*The Hungry Ones* is primarily a reportage about a man. It's a conversation about life and the decisions people make every day or over which they had no influence. It happens that these choices make their rhythm of everyday life dependent on waiting in line for a hot meal, deprive them of a roof over them heads, exclude them. In his book *Hunger*, Martin Caparrós points out that “the future is a luxury available to those who eat”. Looking at selected streets of Krakow, whose empty sidewalks turn into a crowded space at appropriate times of the day, it is possible to wonder about the fate of malnourished people. Does providing them with food guarantee a better future?

The performance is also a peculiar look in the mirror. Do the attitudes people adopt as a society, also in a global context, support the equal distribution of livelihoods? How easy is it for them to throw away leftovers from their own plates or get rid of expired products?

**Video:** Leszek Górka \