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    King Lear

    Dates

    18/01/2025 19:00 Spektakl odwołany
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    19/01/2025 19:00 Spektakl odwołany
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    15/02/2025 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

    18/01/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    19/01/2025 19:00
    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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    Flea the Swindler

    Dates

    18/01/2025 12:00
    Scena Studio

    19/01/2025 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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    Kordian

    Dates

    21/01/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    22/01/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    23/01/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Kordian

    author of the script and director: Jan Englert
    set design: Barbara Hanicka
    music: Stanisław Radwan

    The Polish nation's tragic choice: to die heroically in the name of a noble idea or live a life "making shoes for dogs"?

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    Uhlans

    Dates

    24/01/2025 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    25/01/2025 16:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    26/01/2025 16:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Uhlans

    director: Piotr Cieplak
    costume, set and lighting design: Andrzej Witkowski 

    A serious comedy in three acts about the entanglement in myths of Polishness. 

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    Autumn Sonata

    Dates

    24/01/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    25/01/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    26/01/2025 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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    Forefathers' Eve

    Dates

    25/01/2025 18:45
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    26/01/2025 18:45
    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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    The Misanthrope

    Dates

    28/01/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    29/01/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    30/01/2025 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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    The Books oj Jacob

    Dates

    29/01/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    30/01/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    12/02/2025 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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    How to Be Loved

    Dates

    29/01/2025 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    30/01/2025 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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    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
    Picnic at Hanging Rock. A new play adapted from Joan Lindsay's novel

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

    Performance

    Stage adaptation, dramaturgy: Małgorzata Maciejewska
    Director: Lena Frankiewicz

    • 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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