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How to Be Loved

Dates

31/05/2024 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Scena przy Wierzbowej

01/06/2024 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Scena przy Wierzbowej

02/06/2024 19:30
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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Flea the Swindler

Dates

31/05/2024 12:00
Scena Studio

01/06/2024 12:00
Scena Studio

02/06/2024 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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Mary Stuart

Dates

01/06/2024 19:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

02/06/2024 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Sala Bogusławskiego

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Mary Stuart

direction: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
costume, set and light design, video: Mirek Kaczmarek

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Tales from the Vienna Woods

Dates

04/06/2024 19:00
Scena przy Wierzbowej

05/06/2024 19:00
Scena przy Wierzbowej

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Tales from the Vienna Woods

director, dramaturgy: Małgorzata Bogajewska
set and costume design: Anna Maria Karczmarska
music: Bartłomiej Woźniak
choreography: Maćko Prusak
lighting design: Dariusz Pawelec

A portrait of the society in which fascism is born. Vienna in economic crisis and its lost inhabitants; cruel and petty, looking for simple ways to deal with a world that is incomprehensible to them.

 

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King Lear

Dates

07/06/2024 19:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

08/06/2024 19:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

09/06/2024 19:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

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King Lear

direction: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
set and light design, costume, video: Mirek Kaczmarek
music: Aleksandra Gryka
choreography: Wioleta Fiuk

The King of Britain divides his kingdom between his three daughters to free himself from worries and hardships. However, before the decision he poses a question: which of you loves me the most?

Can he expect honesty? Can honesty convince him? Is it possible to give up power, but not a desire to be obeyed? And can one understand one’s own declining years?

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A Dream Play

Dates

07/06/2024 19:00
Scena przy Wierzbowej

08/06/2024 16:00
Scena przy Wierzbowej

09/06/2024 16:00
Scena przy Wierzbowej

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A Dream Play

script, ballad lyrics, direction: Sławomir Narloch
set and costume design: Martyna Kander
music: Jakub Gawlik
lighting design: Karolina Gębska
vocal preparation: Magdalena Czuba

A Dream Play was written by Swedish playwright August Strindberg at the beginning of the last century. In this drama, hope intertwines with pain, sadness mingles with ridicule, and the pursuit of happiness seems like an interminable dream.

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Dates

12/06/2024 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Sala Bogusławskiego

13/06/2024 19:00
Sala Bogusławskiego

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

direction: Piotr Cieplak
costume, set and light design, projections: Andrzej Witkowski
music: Jan Duszyński
musical director: Tomasz Pawłowski

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

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The Decalogue

Dates

12/06/2024 19:00
Scena przy Wierzbowej

13/06/2024 19:00
Scena przy Wierzbowej

22/06/2024 19:00
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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Alice's Wonderland

Alice's Wonderland

Performance

Author: Lewis Carroll
Director: Sławomir Narloch
Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart

Performance

Author: Friedrich Schiller
Director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Performance

Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Piotr Cieplak
  • FEBLIK

    Feblik (Old Polish for an ‘infatuation’), surprising drama by Małgorzata Maciejewska received the Tadeusz Różewicz Drama Award. Premiere of the spectacle directed by Lena Frankiewicz: 14 June 2024. 

  • 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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