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THEATRE FOR SENIORS in September

12/05/2025

Seniors (retirees, pensioners, and those over 65) can purchase tickets at promotional prices for selected performances from the Theatre's repertoire. In September, there are three productions, including Thomas Bernhard's The Theatre Maker, directed by Andrzej Domalik.

SEPTEMBER REPERTOIRE; TICKETS ONLINE

Aleksandra Justa (Bruscon's Wife). Phot. Marta Ankiersztejn
The Theatre Maker by Thomas Bernhard, directed by Andrzej Domalik: Aleksandra Justa (Bruscon's Wife). Phot. Marta Ankiersztejn

Information about the performances included in the promotion for a given month is announced on our website and can also be found in leaflets available in front of the main box office at Plac Teatralny 3.

To take advantage of the promotion, simply mention the phrase THEATRE FOR SENIORS (“TEATR DLA SENIORÓW”) when booking and present a document showing you are entitled to the discount upon entering the auditorium. One document is valid for two tickets at the promotional price. Tickets are available for direct sale, by phone reservation, and via the online sales system (note: online purchases are not refundable).

In September, students are invited to the following performances:

Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Grzegorz Wiśniewski
September 10 and 11 września, 7.00 pm
Bogusławski Hall
ticket price: 45 PLN

Snake Skin by Artur Urbański, directed by Artur Urbański
September 10 and 11, 7.00 pm
The Jerzy Grzegorzewski Stage at Wierzbowa Street
ticket price: 35 PLN

The Theatre Maker by Thomas Bernhard, directed by Andrzej Domalik
September 27 and 28, 7.30 pm
The Jerzy Grzegorzewski Stage at Wierzbowa Street
ticket price: 50 PLN


Booking Tickets

You can book tickets and vouchers by telephoning the following numbers:
+48 22 69 20 604
+48 22 69 20 664

Phone booking hours:
• Monday – Friday 9.00 am – 7.00 pm
• Saturday – Sunday 3.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Telephone reservations, ticket office, regulations

Email pomoc_bilety@narodowy.pl

Box Offices
Main Box office at 3, Theatre Square (plac Teatralny 3)
• open from Tuesday to Sunday 3.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Box Office at 3, Wierzbowa Street (ulica Wierzbowa 3 / the audience enters from Aleksander Fredro Street)
• open on the days of performances at The Jerzy Grzegorzewski Stage at Wierzbowa or Studio Stage – one hour before a start of a performance

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  • THE POLISH THERMOPYLAE

    In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. Opening Night: 22 November 2025

  • CHARLATANS

    “When I’m not acting, life is black and white,” says the heroine of Pablo Remón’s play. Charlatans directed by Grzegorz Małecki, Polish preview: 13 June 2025.

  • HAMLET

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 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. 

  • 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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