The production can be seen at the Theatre on the Beach in Sopot, Al. Mamuszki 2. 

Tickets may be purchased at the Theatre on the Beach 45 minutes before the show, through the Interticket payment system or at Interticket sales points (list of places available here). Theatre on the Beach office: 58 555 22 34 (Mon-Fri, 9-15).

The show is inspired by the life and work of the Sopot writer and director Jerzy Afanasjew. Afanasjew’s Chimeras is a story told by three Pierrots who, while attempting to escape the oppressive office reality, follow the tumult of the war and prepare shows to be performed at garrisons for the entertainment of troops. Bullets are flying over their heads and bombs exploding nearby when they pull out their portable theatre. Their tales are a mere stop on the never-ending trek through ruins, rubbish dumps and office blocks, everywhere where armed conflict may be encountered. 

Jerzy Afanasjew was born in 1932 in Nowa Wilejka (present day Naujoji Vilnia) in the eastern part of Vilnius. He came from a multicultural family, was initially baptised in the Orthodox church and a few years later in the Catholic church. One year before the outbreak of war he and his mother left to stay with family in Łomża. From then on, they often lived on the brink of poverty. In 1940 they received news of his father’s death and his mother was diagnosed with cancer. She was brutally murdered by members of Vlasov’s army in a Warsaw hospital. At the time Afanasjew wandered around, staying with relatives in different parts of Poland. After the war he was a pupil of a lower secondary school in Płock and later of a technical secondary school in Białystok. In 1953 he started studying Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Gdańsk. He also started publishing in such popular magazines as Po Prostu and Polityka. May 1955 in Gdańsk saw the formation of Bim-Bom, a legendary student theatre, founded on the initiative of students of the Academy of Fine Arts Wowo Bielicki and Jacek Fedorowicz and the actors Zbyszek Cybulski and Bogumił Kobiela, commencing with the show entitled "Ahaa!". Afanasjew, as a Technical University student, was invited to join them. In 1963 he started studying Directing at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. He directed TV plays in many regional TV stations across Poland and in 1972 became Main Director at the Gdańsk section of Polish television, a post which he held for 10 years. He lost his job when in 1981, at the request of a delegation of shipyard workers, he directed the celebrations of the blessing of the monument to the Victims of December 1970. After the imposition of martial law, along with his wife Alina, a theatre and TV set designer, he handed in his communist party ID. He died in 1991.