On October 10 at 8:00 p.m. at Kołorking Muzyczny / Dom Słuchowisk in Poznań, the Golden, Silver, and Pink Ear awards were presented for the best radio play of 2025.
I had the honor of serving on the jury alongside Anna Wieczur and Anna Cieślak. Out of the 23 submissions received, we decided to award the following radio plays:
- First Place: A Premeditated Crime by Witold Gombrowicz, adapted and directed by Oskar Winiarski, produced by the A. Zelwerowicz Theater Academy in Warsaw
- Second Place: The Female Workers, written and directed by Oliwia Kot
- Third place: What is a bubble?, written and directed by Alicja Rasztawicka
Honorable mentions:
- ONCE UPON A TIME… IN ŁÓDŹ, written and directed by Krzysztof Tubilewicz, produced by Radio 357
- MY LADY’S STAR FELL, screenplay: Iwona Rusek, directed by: Dariusz Błaszczyk, producer: Polish Radio Program 2
- A PIECE FOR TRANSFERRED PIANO, screenplay and direction: Joanna Wabik
I wrote the following justification for honoring Joanna Wabik’s work:
“If a radio play is a form of art, and art is a way of life in which freedom is realized, then Joanna Wabik’s work is a complete and total radio play. In a completely free and unforced way, musical form, a story about the form and creation of the work, narration, ambient sounds—including those that are crude and unseemly—naturalistic voyeurism, and artistic refinement all intertwine here. It is also a story about the costs of creating the work and the complexity of the creative process, which often defies the logic of everyday life. At the same time, it is a work that is not difficult to appreciate, though its form is unconventional.
“I wasn’t looking for this radio play—it found me—and I’m grateful for that.”