Premiere: 14 November 2026
Author: Tennessee Williams
Title: Słodki ptak młodości
Original Title: Sweet Bird of Youth
Translator: Jacek Poniedziałek
Director: Małgorzata Bogajewska

Auditorium: The Jerzy Grzegorzewski Stage at Wierzbowa


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Sweet Bird of Youth

What price would you be willing to pay for fifteen minutes of fame? Is there still room for genuine emotion in the world of show business, or are all relationships there based on cynicism and cold calculation?

Małgorzata Bogajewska returns to the National Theatre with a play by Tennessee Williams—one of the most significant figures in the history of American drama. Sweet Bird of Youth is not merely a story about people blinded by the pursuit of success and status, it is also about dealing with the taste of failure. When one must face up to the demons of the past to fight for one’s future, moral principles often take a back seat. Is it mere chance that this is also a tale about the glamour and the dark side of an actor’s life?

Jacek Poniedziałek has, especially for us, revised his translation on which the adaptation is based.

Stage Adaptor and Director: Małgorzata Bogajewska
Set Designer: Justyna Elminowska
Costume Designer: Sylwester Krupiński
Composer: Bartłomiej Woźniak
Choreographer: Maćko Prusak
Director's Assistant, Stage Manager and Prompter: Magdalena Markowska

Tickets available from 1 October (telephone bookings and online sales from 9.00 am; sales at the box office from 3.00 pm)

Cast

Production Team

  • Lighting Technicians: Tomasz Księżak, Jarosław Wydrych 
  • Sound Technicians: Marcin Kotwa, Maciej Śliż
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