NARÚ
Our Award Winning Short Film ‘NARÚ’ is about a young woman, Nakia, who decides to visit and meet her father for the very first time in her life, at the cemetery where he is buried. Having been too afraid to face this moment up until now, a secret Nakia carries pushes her to confront the uncomfortable truth of her past.
Written and directed by Olivia Gajetzki and Peter Benedict Salole in Ibiza, Spain, 2024
Romeo and Juliet
Un Amor Impossible
The sombre tale of a native Ibizan lizard and an invasive Iberian snake - performed in December 2025 at Can Cristófol Ibiza. A cardboard Christmas play which, according to local biological scientist and cultural activist Antònia Maria Cirer Costa, highlighted ‘…the certainty that (on Eivissa) lizards and snakes embody an impossible coexistence.’
Romeo and Juliet, Un Amor Impossible
Concept and script:
Olivia Gajetzki and Joanna Hruby
Direction and drama facilitation: Olivia Gajetzki
Masks, costumes, props and arts facilitation: Joanna Hruby (Theatre of The Ancients)
Leonie Freeman - Photography
Can Cristófol, December 2026
A Can Cristófol Christmas Play dedicated to the magical world of mushrooms and the mycelial network. Featuring dancing mushrooms, a couple of sassy pine trees and a multi-coloured “Shroomicorn” with a bad attitude, ‘Friki Funghi’ was a fable calling for community, solidarity and rootedness in rootless times.
FRIKI FUNGHI
Concept and script:
Olivia Gajetzki and Joanna Hruby
Direction and drama facilitation: Olivia Gajetzki
Masks, costumes, props and arts facilitation: Joanna Hruby (Theatre of The Ancients)
Can Cristófol, December 2025
Comedy of Vegetables
The Comedy of Vegetables was performed at the Can Cristofol farm on 14th of December 2023, a culmination of an educational, cultural and artistic project, devised, developed and created by Joanna Hruby (Theatre of the Ancients) and Olivia Gajetzki.
The main cast was aged between 6 - 11 and included a tomato, a squash and three rainbow-coloured corns. Can Cristofol’s host Dean, meanwhile, stood onstage dessed as a giant onion holding up subtitles and cue cards.