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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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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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Mary Stuart

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

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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

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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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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Recommended

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
Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart

Performance

Author: Friedrich Schiller
Director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
  • FEBLIK

    Feblik (Old Polish for an ‘infatuation’), surprising drama by Małgorzata Maciejewska received the Tadeusz Różewicz Drama Award. The spectacle 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 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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