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The Decalogue

Dates

04/05/2024 19:30
Scena przy Wierzbowej

05/05/2024 19:30
Scena przy Wierzbowej

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The Decalogue

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.

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Waiting for Godot

Dates

10/05/2024 19:00
Scena Studio

11/05/2024 19:00
Scena Studio

12/05/2024 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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Forefathers' Eve

Dates

24/04/2024 18:30
Sala Bogusławskiego

25/04/2024 18:30
Sala Bogusławskiego

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Forefathers' Eve

director:  Eimuntas Nekrošius
music: Paweł Szymański
set designer: Marius Nekrošius
costume designer: Nadežda Gultiajeva
lighting designer: Audrius Jankauskas
dramaturgy: Rolandas Rastauskas

Mickiewicz's poetic drama interpreted by Lithuanian Master— theatre visionary known for his unique theatrical language.

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How to Be Loved

Dates

26/04/2024 19:30
Scena przy Wierzbowej

27/04/2024 19:30
Scena przy Wierzbowej

28/04/2024 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Scena przy Wierzbowej

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How to Be Loved

director: Lena Frankiewicz
stage adaptation and dramaturgy: Małgorzata Anna Maciejewska
set and lighting design: Agata Swkarczyńska 


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.

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The Misanthrope

Dates

26/04/2024 19:00
Scena Studio

27/04/2024 19:00
Scena Studio

28/04/2024 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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Fredro. The Jubilee Year

Dates

27/04/2024 16:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

28/04/2024 16:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

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Fredro. The Jubilee Year

script: Jan Englert, Tomasz Kubikowski, Wojciech Majcherek
director: Jan Englert
set design: Martyna Kander
lighting design: Dariusz Pawelec
montage of video projections: Milenia Fiedler

Fredro, as a teenager, experienced the horrors and tragedies of war. Fredro took them in his stride with a lively, irreverent merriment. Fredro, reflective, Fredro, ageing, Fredro, had monuments erected in his name, yet he was put on trial, and his name dragged through the mud. Do you think you know him? Well, listen up.

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The Books oj Jacob

Dates

04/05/2024 19:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

05/05/2024 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Sala Bogusławskiego

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The Books oj Jacob

direction, light design, video: Michał Zadara
stage adaptation: Barbara Wysocka, Michał Zadara
set design: Robert Rumas
costume design: Julia Kornacka
music: Justyna Skoczek, Michał Zadara

Staging the most important novel by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth – a country of many cultures and nationalities at the turn of the epochs. In it, we can also see a reflection of today's reality, with its threats and hope for a better project for the world.

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Autumn Sonata

Dates

04/05/2024 19:00
Scena Studio

05/05/2024 19:00
Scena Studio

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Autumn Sonata

director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski 
costume, set and lighting design: Mirek Kaczmarek
music: Agnieszka Stulgińska


After years of absence, Charlotte, a world-famous pianist, accepts her daughter Eva's invitation and visits her modest home in Norway. What will result from the collision of their two separate worlds?

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The Image Makers

Dates

07/05/2024 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Scena Studio

08/05/2024 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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Alice's Wonderland

Alice's Wonderland

Performance

Author: Lewis Carroll
Director: Sławomir Narloch
The Books of Jacob

The Books of Jacob

Performance

Original Title: Księgi Jakubowe
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Director: Michał Zadara
Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Performance

Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Piotr Cieplak

  • 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 plays the title role. The tragedy directed by Grzegorz Wiśniewski. 

  • WAITING FOR GODOT

    Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot by Beckett. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power? And, are we still waiting?


  • 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

    Vienna in economic crisis and its lost inhabitants; portrait of the society in which fascism is born. Małgorzata Bogajewska directs 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? The musical performance based on the famous novels 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

    Staging the most important novel by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk directed by Michał Zadara. 

  • THE DECALOGUE

    An iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation. Wojciech Faruga directs The Decalogue 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

    Maciej Wojtyszko directs his own play about Baron von Münchhausen, a famous adventurer and swindler.


  • 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.

  • TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL

    Complicated love intrigues and music. Piotr Cieplak directs Twelfth Night, or What You Will, one of Shakespeare's most important comedies.


  • PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

    The new theatrical version of the Australian prose classics directed by Lena Frankiewicz. In the role of Mrs Appleyard – Ewa Wiśniewska.


  • SNAKE SKIN

    Artur Urbański directs his own play which main character is Ruth Berlau, one of Bertolt Brecht's closest associates and life companions.


  • SNOW

    Staging of the Young Poland movement modernist drama by Stanisław Przybyszewski – Snow directed by Anna Gryszkówna.


  • AUTUMN SONATA

    A theatrical version of the famous film by Ingmar Bergman directed by Grzegorz Wiśniewski. Danuta Stenka as Charlotte.


  • MOTHER JOAN OF ANGELS

    How does evil arise that we do not understand?Mother Joan of Angles by Iwaszkiewicz directed by Wojciech Faruga. 


  • The National Theatre at Google Cultural Institute

    Virtual exhibition 250 Years of Teatr Narodowy (National Theatre of Poland) is available online at Google Cultural Institute.


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