World-famous actor and producer John Malkovich comes to Poland at the beginning of June with The Infernal Comedy - Confessions of a Serial Killer, a drama for one actor, two opera singers and an orchestra.

The production recounts the life of Jack Unterweger, the Austrian writer and serial killer who murdered a number of prostitutes in Europe and Los Angeles.

He was arrested in 1992 and put to jail in Austria, where he hanged himself in 1994.  In the play, he comes back from the dead as part of a book tour to promote his latest memoirs. For much of the production, Malkovich is seated at a table where he recites a comic monologue about his character's life, loves and dangerous liaisons. 

He interacts with two opera singers who perform arias by Vivaldi, Mozart and Haydn. They represent the various women in the murderer's life, including his mother and some of the prostitutes he killed.

The two performances in Poland – in Łódź and Warsaw – are part of a world tour which includes  Prague, London, Vienna,  St. Petersburg, New York and Rio de Janeiro.

The show is scripted and directed  by Michael Sturminger. Malkovich is partnered by Bernarda Bobro from Slovenia and Aleksandra Zamojska from Poland.

Malkovich has acted in around seventy films. He received Academy Award nominations for Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire and appeared in such successful movies as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields and Dangerous Liaisons.

He came to Poland in 1995 for the location shooting of Volker Schlondorff’s Der Unhold (The Ogre). (mk)