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    The Polish Thermopylae

    Dates

    26/03/2026 19:00 Napisy w językach angielskim i ukraińskim
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    27/03/2026 19:00 Napisy w językach angielskim i ukraińskim
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    10/04/2026 19:00 Napisy w językach angielskim i ukraińskim
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    The Polish Thermopylae

    direction, stage adaptation and musical arrangements: Jan Klata
    dramaturgy: Miłosz Markiewicz
    set and lighting design: Justyna Łagowska
    costume design: Mirek Kaczmarek
    choreography: Maćko Prusak
    video: Natan Berkowicz
    live music: Gruzja

    In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. As he announces in his programme notes, it is "a phantasmagoria about the cursed fate of our corner of Europe. About Poland, Russia, Ukraine, about the shadow that Fate has cast on successive generations of History's cannon fodder."
    The premiere of The Polish Thermopylae will take place on November 22, 2025, to mark the 260th anniversary of the National Theatre.

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    Infinite Jest

    Dates

    27/03/2026 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    28/03/2026 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    29/03/2026 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Infinite Jest

    author: David Foster Wallace
    title: Niewyczerpany żart
    original title: Infinite Jest
    translator: Jolanta Kozak
    stage adaptation and direction: Kamil Białaszek
    set design: Julia Zawadzka
    costume design: Sławek Blaszewski
    lighting design: Tadeusz Pyrczak
    choreography: Bartosz Dopytalski
    multimedia: Michał Mitoraj, Hubert Kozarzewski
    music, sound engineering: Mateusz Augustyn, Bartłomiej Gargula (Barto Katt)

    Work of Kamil Białaszek intersects with a legend of postmodernism, David Foster Wallace, whose Infinite Jest is considered a milestone in American literature of the 1990s. This disturbingly timely, over 1,000-page novel raises questions about the paths we take due to our thoughtless pursuit of entertainment and media addiction.

     

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    Men Explain Things to Me

    Dates

    27/03/2026 19:30 Prapremiera
    Scena Studio

    28/03/2026 19:30
    Scena Studio

    29/03/2026 19:30
    Scena Studio

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    Men Explain Things to Me

    translator: Anna Dzierzgowska
    director: Klaudia Gębska
    stage adaptation: Mariusz Gołosz, Klaudia Gębska 
    dramaturgy: Mariusz Gołosz, Patryk Kozłowski
    set, costume and light design: Julia Furdyna, Zofia Tomalska
    music: Olga Pasek
    choreography: Magdalena Kawecka

    At the National Theatre, Klaudia Gębska will stage the play Men Explain Things to Me, based on the most famous collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit – an author who supported the #metoo movement and inspired the term "mansplaining". 

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    Poetry Emergency

    Dates

    29/03/2026 12:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Poetry Emergency

    Series of poetry meeting. Concept and Script: Krystyna Gucewicz

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    Hamlet

    Dates

    07/04/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    08/04/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Hamlet

    author: William Shakespeare
    original title: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
    translator: Stanisław Barańczak
    direction: Jan Englert
    set design: Wojciech Stefaniak
    costume: Martyna Kander
    music: Aleksandra Gryka
    choreography: Tomasz Wygoda
    light design: Karolina Gębska
    video: Jagoda Chalcińska
    fight choreography: Przemysław Wyszyński

    Jan Englert crowns his twenty-eight seasons of artistic work at the National Theatre with a performance of Hamlet. Should we believe the spirits of our ancestors? Should we believe anyone, for that matter? What is true and what is false at the Court of Elsinore?

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    Other Delights

    Dates

    08/04/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    09/04/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Other Delights

    author: Jerzy Pilch
    original title: Inne rozkosze
    direction: Jacek Głomb
    stage adaptation: Robert Urbański
    set and costume design: Małgorzata Bulanda
    music: Bartosz Straburzyński
    stage movement: Witold Jurewicz
    lighting design: Jacek Głomb, Małgorzata Bulanda

    An amorous veterinarian must cope with a difficult situation. At the door of the house where he lives with his wife, his parents and his grandmother - a model protestant family - his lover appears, having come to "stay with him forever". An ordinary story of extraordinary love, a love which smites the hero with dramatic and theatrical force.


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    Lungs

    Dates

    10/04/2026 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena Studio

    11/04/2026 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena Studio

    12/04/2026 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena Studio

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    Lungs

    author: Duncan Macmillan
    original title: Lungs
    translator: Anna Gujska
    author: Duncan Macmillan
    director: Grzegorz Małecki

    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.

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    Baron von Münchhausen for Adults

    Dates

    11/04/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    12/04/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    25/04/2026 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Baron von Münchhausen for Adults

    author: Maciej Wojtyszko
    original title: Baron Münchhausen dla dorosłych
    director: Maciej Wojtyszko
    set design: Wojciech Stefaniak
    costume design: Martyna Kander
    music: Irina Blokhina
    lighting design: Karolina Gębska
    stunt & special effect: Andrzej Słomiński

    Maciej Wojtyszko directs his own play about the famous adventurer and mystifier. Baron von Münchhausen lived in the 18th century and told incredible stories about himself, and thus entered literature as a half-fantasy, half-real character. To this day, it is unclear what he made up about himself and what was attributed to him.


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    The Decalogue

    Dates

    15/04/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    16/04/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    The Decalogue

    authors: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
    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

     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.

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    Autumn Sonata

    Dates

    17/04/2026 19:00
    Scena Studio

    18/04/2026 16:00
    Scena Studio

    19/04/2026 16:00
    Scena Studio

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    Autumn Sonata

    author: Ingmar Bergman
    original title: Höstsonaten
    translator: Zygmunt Łanowski
    director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski 
    costume, set and lighting design: Mirek Kaczmarek
    music: Agnieszka Stulgińska

    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, a legendary director, one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century cinema.

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    Infinite Jest

    Performance

    Original Title: Infinite Jest
    Author: David Foster Wallace
    Director: Kamil Białaszek
    Waiting for Godot

    Waiting for Godot

    Performance

    Original Title: En attendant Godot 
    Author: Samuel Beckett
    Director: Piotr Cieplak
    Lungs

    Lungs

    Performance

    Author: Duncan Macmillan
    Director: Grzegorz Małecki

    • THE POLISH THERMOPYLAE

      In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. 

    • INFINITE JEST

      Premiere staged by Kamil Białaszek. His work intersects with a legend of postmodernism, David Foster Wallace. 

    • CHARLATANS

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

    • 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.