Opening Night: 19 November 2015 
Author: Juliusz Słowacki
Title: Kordian
Original Title: Kordian
Director: Jan Englert

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall 

Running time: 2 hours, no interval 

Ticket prices:

full-price tickets:
zone I: 120 PLN
zone II: 110 PLN

concession tickets:
zone I: 85 PLN
zone II: 75 PLN

rush tickets:
40 PLN  more info →

students of state theatre and art schools: 
15 PLN more info →

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.

The play contains excerpts from Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (trans. Adam Pomorski), Juliusz Słowacki's Kordian (trans. into English by Gerard T. Kapolka), fragments of the script of Stanisław Wyspiański's Hamlet directed by Jerzy Grzegorzewski and Wyspiański's drama Liberation, as well as the fragments of Słowacki's poem The Testament of Mine and his drama Samuel Zborowski.

Premiere on 19 November 2015 on 250th Anniversary of the National Theatre

author of the script and director: Jan Englert
set design: Barbara Hanicka
music: Stanisław Radwan
choreography: Tomasz Wygoda
lighting design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
engineering design: Mirosław Łysik
video films director: Marek Kozakiewicz
animations: Michał Jankowski
stunt & special effects: Andrzej Słomiński

Cast

and the actors of the National Theatre as Angels, Devils, Witches, Cardinals, Speakers, Soldiers, Poles:
Marek BarbasiewiczBartłomiej BobrowskiPaweł BrzeszczEwa Konstancja BułhakMonika DrylKarol DziubaBeata FudalejJakub GawlikWiktoria GorodeckajaPiotr GrabowskiAnna GrycewiczJoanna GrygaAnna GryszkównaArkadiusz JaniczekRobert JarocińskiAleksandra JustaDominika KluźniakMateusz KmiecikMirosław KonarowskiPaulina KorthalsJustyna KowalskaWaldemar KownackiPiotr KramerJoanna Kwiatkowska-ZduńGrzegorz KwiecieńAnna LobedanMichalina ŁabaczSławomira ŁozińskaKacper MatulaJacek MikołajczakWiesława Niemyska (guest actor)Paweł PaprockiHubert PaszkiewiczPiotr PiksaKarol PochećMarcin Przybylski, Jacek RóżańskiHenryk SimonAdam SzczyszczajBeata ŚcibakównaPaweł TołwińskiMagdalena Warzecha

guest actors:
Łukasz Borkowski, Maciej Hanczewski, Stefan Krzysztofiak, Kamil Maria Małanicz, Szymon Nowak, Bartosz Wesołowski, Łukasz Węgrzynowski

and children: 
Natasza MędrzejewskaTymoteusz Czajka, Tomasz GrzybMichał PietruczukMichał Żurawski 

Audio recording: Orchestra under direction of Mirosław Jastrzębski


Production team:

  • director's assistant: Anna Turowiec
  • assistant director trainee: Anna Gryszkówna (AT)
  • sound technician: Mariusz Maszewski
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski
    video projection: Mariusz Chałubek, Paweł Woźniak
  • stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk
  • prompter: Anna Leszczyńska


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