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By Joanna WoŸniczko (Gazeta Wyborcza, 23/09/05)
‘Joy and sorrow are international languages’, says Simon Mol, director of the play ‘Standstill Moment’, which was staged yesterday in Victoria hotel. Africans, Asians and Europeans took part in it. 
‘Oh God all’s cool— cool girls, cool guys’, says the impulsive Angolan actor to the public; the performance of Standstill Moment by the group Migrator Theatre begins.
Author and Director: Simon Mol
Length: 1 hour
Actors:
Exile Masters (Theatre group of the Association of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Poland - Actors are drawn from over seven different countries)
Inspired by the poem the ‘Stand-still Moment’ this mystical, musical spectacle shows ‘the beauty and bestiality of a city’ through the combination of Caucasian, Oriental and African dances. Well knitted together, these cross-cultural ingredients rightly portray ‘Happiness and Grief’ as natural human legacies, irrespective of race or culture. Above all, the entire play displays the runs that the human emotional mechanism experiences in the course of incarnation.
By Simon Mol
September 9, 2005 pressed me to a crucial battle against forces plotting to snatch my humanity from its sacred sanctuary in my personality.
About a month ago I ran into two individuals at a shopping centre. It was close to midnight. We ran into a conversation and they said they were after work and were on their way home. They said they were scared to take a bus as it was too late. The previous day they had run into a group of young hooligans who harassed them. I offered them a lift to their destination, about fifteen kilometers away. On the way I realized that I was short of fuel and stopped at a filling station along Kondratowicza Street in Targowek. I don’t recall how much fuel I took. However I remember going into the shop to pay for the fuel. I remember this very well.
