“The eponymous ‘malady study’ is a highly comical grotesque, which at times, however, takes on a bitter edge. In certain passages, it stings like a wound sprinkled with salt (for example, in the visualisation of oral pathology, rendered in the aesthetic of somatic horror, which is displayed on screen in a close-up of fleshy detail). In others, it freezes like a tear on the face of a weary winter traveller. The performers are at times self-deprecating, but also disarmingly honest. Black humour tames the burdensome frailty of the body, its inescapable fragility and the unruliness of strained muscles and joints, which eventually slip beyond control.” https://didaskalia.pl/pl/artykul/je-suis-malade

“To put it in the terms of a brief and concrete diagnosis – Knapik and Kowańska created Very Sad to talk about what hurts them, in the most literal sense of the word. Their new performance, without losing any of the subversive energy we saw in Very Funny, and despite the distance with which both performers treat both themselves and the catalogue of pain, becomes increasingly poignant with every passing minute. The framework remains the same, as does the theme in its broadest sense (the artist’s miseries and, less frequently, their low points), but these new, far more universal themes resonate with audiences on a broader scale, regardless of whether they have ever been involved in the creative process or not.” https://www.teatralny.pl/artykuly/w-zdrowiu-i-w-chorobie-3906