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    Tales from the Vienna Woods

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    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    director, dramaturgy: Małgorzata Bogajewska
    set and costume design: Anna Maria Karczmarska
    music: Bartłomiej Woźniak
    choreography: Maćko Prusak
    lighting design: Dariusz Pawelec

    A portrait of the society in which fascism is born. Vienna in economic crisis and its lost inhabitants; cruel and petty, looking for simple ways to deal with a world that is incomprehensible to them.

     

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    Picnic at Hanging Rock. A new play adapted from Joan Lindsay's novel

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    05/02/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    06/02/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Picnic at Hanging Rock. A new play adapted from Joan Lindsay's novel

    director: Lena Frankiewicz
    stage adaptation and dramaturgy: Małgorzata Anna Maciejewska
    set, costume and lighting design: Katarzyna Borkowska

    A new play adapted from Joan Lindsay's novel. The new theatrical version of the Australian prose classics.

    On a hot, stormy day, Mrs Appleyard's boarding school residents go on a picnic near Hanging Rock. With the permission of a teacher, the girls go for a walk in the countryside. Only one of them returns.

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    Other Delights

    Dates

    07/02/2025 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    08/02/2025 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    09/02/2025 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Other Delights

    This adaptation of the novel Other Delights is the second staging of one of Jerzy Pilch's works at the National Theatre, following The Holy Father's Skis. With artful phrasing, Pilch tells an ordinary story of extraordinary love, a love which smites the hero with dramatic and theatrical force.

    direction: Jacek Głomb
    stage adaptation: Robert Urbański
    set and costume design: Małgorzata Bulanda
    music: Bartosz Straburzyński
    stage movement: Witold Jurewicz
    lighting design: Jacek Głomb, Małgorzata Bulanda

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    Fredro. The Jubilee Year

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    08/02/2025 16:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    09/02/2025 16:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Fredro. The Jubilee Year

    script: Jan Englert, Tomasz Kubikowski, Wojciech Majcherek
    director: Jan Englert
    set design: Martyna Kander
    lighting design: Dariusz Pawelec
    montage of video projections: Milenia Fiedler

    Fredro, as a teenager, experienced the horrors and tragedies of war. Fredro took them in his stride with a lively, irreverent merriment. Fredro, reflective, Fredro, ageing, Fredro, had monuments erected in his name, yet he was put on trial, and his name dragged through the mud. Do you think you know him? Well, listen up.

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    Autumn Sonata

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    08/02/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    09/02/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

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    Autumn Sonata

    director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski 
    costume, set and lighting design: Mirek Kaczmarek
    music: Agnieszka Stulgińska


    After years of absence, Charlotte, a world-famous pianist, accepts her daughter Eva's invitation and visits her modest home in Norway. What will result from the collision of their two separate worlds?

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    The Books oj Jacob

    Dates

    12/02/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    13/02/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    The Books oj Jacob

    direction, light design, video: Michał Zadara
    stage adaptation: Barbara Wysocka, Michał Zadara
    set design: Robert Rumas
    costume design: Julia Kornacka
    music: Justyna Skoczek, Michał Zadara

    Staging the most important novel by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth – a country of many cultures and nationalities at the turn of the epochs. In it, we can also see a reflection of today's reality, with its threats and hope for a better project for the world.

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    Waiting for Godot

    Dates

    14/02/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    15/02/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    16/02/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

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    Waiting for Godot

    director: Piotr Cieplak
    set and costume design: Andrzej Witkowski
    lighting design: Piotr Cieplak, Andrzej Witkowski

    Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power? And, are we still waiting?

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    King Lear

    Dates

    15/02/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    16/02/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    18/02/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    King Lear

    direction: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
    set and light design, costume, video: Mirek Kaczmarek
    music: Aleksandra Gryka
    choreography: Wioleta Fiuk

     The King of Britain divides his kingdom between his three daughters to free himself from worries and hardships. However, before the decision he poses a question: which of you loves me the most?

    Can he expect honesty? Can honesty convince him? Is it possible to give up power, but not a desire to be obeyed? And can one understand one’s own declining years?

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    The Books of Jacob

    The Books of Jacob

    Performance

    Original Title: Księgi Jakubowe
    Author: Olga Tokarczuk
    Director: Michał Zadara
    Mary Stuart

    Mary Stuart

    Performance

    Author: Friedrich Schiller
    Director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
    Picnic at Hanging Rock. A new play adapted from Joan Lindsay's novel

    Picnic at Hanging Rock. A new play adapted from Joan Lindsay's novel

    Performance

    Stage adaptation, dramaturgy: Małgorzata Maciejewska
    Director: Lena Frankiewicz

    • HAMLET

      Jan Englert crowns his twenty-eight seasons of artistic work at the National Theatre with a performance of Hamlet. Premiere: 12 April 2025


    • HEAVEN AND HELL

      Although Maria Wojtyszko's play touches upon the painful subject of losing loved ones, Jakub Krofta's deft staging provides light entertainment for the whole family. Premiere: 22 February 2025

    • OTHER DELIGHTS

      This adaptation of the novel Other Delights is the second staging of one of Jerzy Pilch's works at the National Theatre, following The Holy Father's Skis.  

    • FAUST

      Faust is a story based on an ancient legend of a scholar who yearns so much for just a moment of happiness that he makes a pact with the devil. 

    • FEBLIK

      Małgorzata Maciejewska's surprising drama received the Tadeusz Różewicz Drama Award in 2022, the competition's first year. The show is directed by Lena Frankiewicz. 

    • A DREAM PLAY

      After the well-received Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Sławomir Narloch returned to the National Theatre with another premiere – A Dream Play by Strindberg.

       

    • KING LEAR

      King Lear may be Shakespeare's boldest examination of human nature. Jan Englert will play the title role in the National Theatre's production.

    • WAITING FOR GODOT

      "What do we do now? Wait. [...] We're waiting for Godot". Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot by Beckett. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power?

    • FREDRO: THE JUBILEE YEAR

      To celebrate 230 years since Aleksander Fredro's birth, the National Theatre invites you to an evening dedicated to the life and works of Poland’s greatest comedy writer. 

    • TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS

      Małgorzata Bogajewska directs for the second time at the National Theatre. This time she draws on Ödön von Horváth's 1931 drama.

    • THE THEATRE MAKER

      The play by Thomas Bernhard, one of the most outstanding playwrights of the second half of the 20th century. In the title role – Jerzy Radziwiłowicz. 

    • ALICE'S WONDERLAND

      Have you ever quarreled with the Time or visited a forest where things have no names? Alice’s Wonderland is a musical performance based on the famous novel by Lewis Carroll. 

    • THE MISANTHROPE

      Jan Englert stages a classic play by Molière. What is Alcest's misanthropy: an uncompromising commitment to the truth or a doomed uprising against social conventions?

    • THE BOOKS OF JACOB

      In the middle of the 18th century Jacob Frank proclaimed the new principles of the Jewish faith. This is a staging of the most important novel by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. 

    • THE DECALOGUE

      A meditation upon the moral foundations of the present – an iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz. 

    • MARY STUART

      Grzegorz Wiśniewski returns to the classic drama about human passions interwoven in a ruthless machinery of history and intrigue.

    • MÜNCHHAUSEN FOR ADULTS

      Baron von Münchhausen lived in the 18th century and told incredible stories about himself. Maciej Wojtyszko directs his own play about the famous adventurer and mystifier.

    • Solidarity with Ukraine | Солідарні з Україною

      The ensemble of the National Theatre stands in solidarity with the Ukrainians who are fighting for the independence of their homeland.

    • PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

      1900. On a hot, stormy day, Mrs Appleyard's boarding school residents go on a picnic near Hanging Rock. The new theatrical version of the Australian prose classics. 

    • SNAKE SKIN

      Artur Urbański directs his own play which main character is Ruth Berlau, one of Bertolt Brecht's closest associates and life companions.

    • AUTUMN SONATA

      A story about the need for love and acceptance, about an inherited emotional coldness, about the psychological costs of creativity. A theatrical version of a film script by Ingmar Bergman. 

    • MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS

      A performance about the need to experience something that surpasses us. In the title role of the prioress – Małgorzata Kożuchowska. 

    • HEDDA GABLER

      Hedda Gabler – work by Henrik Ibsen, a master of psychological realism – in stage interpretation of director Kuba Kowalski is a poetic performance.


    • HOW TO BE LOVED

      This is the performance about love and moral responsibility for another person as well as the mechanisms controlling human memory. The dramatisation of the story by Kazimierz Brandys.


    • LUNGS

      Briliant, full of humour and touching love story of a young couple. Breakups and comebacks, passion and sex, the first important decisions and the search for meaning in a complex, modern world.


    • UHLANS

      The Museum of All-Time Polish Uhlans. Exhibits of the national exacerbation. A serious comedy in three acts about the entanglement in myths of Polishness. 


    • THE IMAGE MAKERS

      The truth about the essence of creation and responsibility in art. Director Viktor Sjöström is working on the film The Phantom Carriage, based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf. 

    • FOREFATHER'S EVE

      Mickiewicz's poetic drama interpreted by Lithuanian Master Eimuntas Nekrošius — theatre visionary known for his unique theatrical language.


    • KORDIAN

      The Polish nation's tragic choice: to die heroically in the name of a noble idea or live a life "making shoes for dogs"? — the alternative presented to Kordian in two parables.

    • FLEA THE SWINDLER

      Tremendous fun and great laughs – not just for kids. The antics of the Flea are directed by Anna Seniuk with the music composed by Maciej Małecki.


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