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    Heaven and Hell

    Dates

    25/02/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    26/02/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    07/03/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Heaven and Hell

    direction: Jakub Krofta
    dramaturgy: Maria Wojtyszko
    set and costume design: Matylda Kotlińska
    music: Grzegorz Mazoń
    lighting design: Damian Pawella
    video: Jakub Lech
    stage movement: Leszek Bzdyl
    Heaven and Hell is a moving family comedy full of fairy-tale elements. In a familiar, earthly reality, we are able to spy on the inhabitants of Heaven and Hell who are usually invisible – archangels, devils, Saint Peter, the Virgin Mary, and even God himself! The dialogue sparkles with humour, and the story surprises not only the audience, but also the characters in the drama.

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    Faust

    Dates

    27/02/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    28/02/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    01/03/2025 16:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Faust

    direction: Wojciech Faruga
    dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
    set and light design, costume: Katarzyna Borkowska
    music: Teoniki Rożynek
    choreography, stage movement: Bartłomiej Gąsior

    Faust is a reflection on the different stages of human life – Goethe started working on this story in his youth and continued into old age. Lastly, it is a mirror held up to European culture as a whole and one of its greatest masterpieces.

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    The Image Makers

    Dates

    27/02/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena Studio

    28/02/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena Studio

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    The Image Makers

    director: Artur Urbański
    set and costume designer: Magdalena Maciejewska

    Characters based on real persons. The truth about the essence of creativity and sense of responsibility in arts.
    Anna Seniuk as writer Selma Lagerlöf, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    Baron von Münchhausen for Adults

    Dates

    28/02/2025 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    01/03/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    02/03/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Baron von Münchhausen for Adults

    director: Maciej Wojtyszko
    set design: Wojciech Stefaniak
    costume design: Martyna Kander
    music: Irina Blokhina

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    Flea the Swindler

    Dates

    02/03/2025 12:00
    Scena Studio

    14/03/2025 18:00
    Scena Studio

    15/03/2025 12:00
    Scena Studio

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    Flea the Swindler

    music: Maciej Małecki 
    director: Anna Seniuk 

    Tremendous fun and great laughs - not just for kids!

    Show recommended for young audiences of ages 4 and up.

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    The Misanthrope

    Dates

    05/03/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    06/03/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

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    The Misanthrope

    director: Jan Englert 
    set and costume design: Martyna Kander
    music: Paweł Paprocki
    lighting design: Karolina Gębska

    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? Can love cure misanthropy?

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

    Dates

    08/03/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    09/03/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    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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    Waiting for Godot

    Dates

    08/03/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    09/03/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    11/03/2025 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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    Faust

    Faust

    Performance

    Original Title: Faust. Eine Tragödie
    Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Director: Wojciech Faruga
    Alice's Wonderland

    Alice's Wonderland

    Performance

    Author: Lewis Carroll
    Director: Sławomir Narloch
    Mary Stuart

    Mary Stuart

    Performance

    Author: Friedrich Schiller
    Director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski

    • 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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