Opening Night: 8 October 2022
Authors: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Title: The Decalogue
Original Title: Dekalog
Director: Wojciech Faruga

Auditorium: The Jerzy Grzegorzewski Stage at Wierzbowa
Running time: 2 hours 45 min including one interval

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full-price ticket:
140 PLN

discount ticket:
95 PLN

rush ticket:
50 PLN

students at state-run art schools: 
15 PLN 

The Decalogue

An iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz.

A meditation upon the moral foundations of the present – in the 1980s and now. Ten sequential episodes linked to the Ten Commandments raise important questions about the meaning of the Bible in the 21st century, and about the differences between this century and the previous one. 


Please mind: this production contains cigarette smoke, smoke effects.

director: Wojciech Faruga
author of stage adaptation: Davit Gabunia
dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
set, costumes and lighting design: Katarzyna Borkowska
music: Bartosz Dziadosz
choreography: Krystian Łysoń
director's assistant: Mateusz Kmiecik
stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk / Adam Borkowski (April 15, 16)
prompter: Anna Leszczyńska

Awards and Nominations

2023 – The Konrad Swinarski Award to Wojciech Faruga for the best theatre director of 2022/2023 season for the direction of The Decalogue
2023 – nomination for the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Award for the best actress of 2022/2023 season for Edyta Olszówka for the roles of Ann, Student, Hannah, Chairwoman, Daughter
2023 – nomination for the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Award or the best actor of 2022/2023 season for Paweł Brzeszcz for the roles of Tom, Student, Jacek

Cast

And children

Marianna Legut (will perform in the show on April 16) / Alisa Sikorenko (will perform in the show on April 15) – Daughter

Lena Janzem (till November 22, 2023) / Zofia Zielińska (till November 23, 2023), Miroslava Tarasenko (till June 23, 2024)
Anna Zacharczuk (till May 6, 2025) / Helena Zielińska (till June 17, 2025)

Production team

  • lighting technicians: Łukasz Obuch-Woszczatyński, Tomasz Księżak
  • sound technicians: Marcin Kotwa, Maciej Śliż


Licence for this stage production was granted by the Society of Authors – ZAiKS.

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Mateusz Kmiecik, Małgorzata Kożuchowska. Phot. Natalia Kabanow

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