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Return of Hanka Ordonowna

by Kazimierz Braun

Saturday, May 5th at 7:30 pm

Winchester Thurston Upper School

Hilda Willis Auditorium

555 Morewood Ave

Pittsburgh, Pa 15232

The play will be held in Polish with English subtitles

Wine reception will follow.

Donnation: $20, Students $10

The Polish Theater of Toronto is presenting a new play about the famous Polish singer, Hanka Ordonowna on May 5th at the Winchester Thurston Upper School in Pittsburgh. Hanka was one of the most celebrated and loved European cabaret artists of the interwar period.

Ordonowna started her career at the Lublin Theater before moving to Warsaw’s Qui Pro Quo Cabaret, where she performed under the direction of Frideric Jarosy. Her song “Love Will Forgive You Everything” has become her signature song and was known and recorded world-wide.  After the outbreak of World War II she was deported to a camp in Uzbekistan, where she started a group to organize support for orphaned children. A few years later she was evacuated, along with the orphanage, to Bombay India and then to Beirut, Lebanon. Not long after that, she passed away from complications related to tuberculosis.

Ordonowna’s fascinating and dramatic life inspired Kazimierz Braun to write his new play about the celebrity singer who sacrificed her colorful life to serve her nation.