One of the few productions in the past twenty-five years to achieve truly mass appeal. Though not an example of experimental theatre, '1989' has unmistakably shaped subsequent seasons of Polish ...

This hour-long performance queers the forms of discipline imposed on the male body – the body that is expected to remain forever ready to fight. Here, physicality is subjected to a humorous remix and ...

The production sought to reclaim 'Solidarity' for contemporary political projects, liberating it from its mythic profile as ...

There is no Polish theatre without a reckoning with Romanticism. Over the past quarter-century, one of the most intriguing ...

The Curse' was a pioneering production – one that anticipated the discourse on violence within theatrical institutions long ...

How does one speak about a mother who has died? Michał Borczuch and Krzysztof Zarzecki allow themselves to drift, deflect, ...

Make Yourself’ exposed a paradoxical dimension at the heart of dance: a form long associated with resistance and liberation, ...

Simple in form, the production went beyond the usual boundaries of the discussion about the identity of the Jewish Theatre ...

Small Narration is arguably the first significant and compelling example of autofiction in Polish theatre. Ziemilski told a ...

Anna Karasińska engages with questions of identity, persona, fiction, and authenticity–not by staging philosophical treatises ...

E-books and tablets, smartphones, Google and even ‘The Matrix’ were all conceived in the mid-20th century by the author of ‘Solaris’. Here’s how Stanisław Lem predicted the future we live in.

There is no dramatic work in Polish literature that poses a challenge as formidable for the theatre as Forefathers’ Eve. The ...