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The Misanthrope

Dates

29/06/2025 16:00
Scena Studio

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The Misanthrope

author: Molière
original title: Le Misanthrope
translator: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
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?

Mary Stuart

Dates

29/06/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Sala Bogusławskiego

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Mary Stuart

author: Friedrich Schiller
original title: Maria Stuart
translator: Jacek St. Buras
direction: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
costume, set and light design, video: Mirek Kaczmarek

Grzegorz Wiśniewski returns to the classic drama of human passions involved in a ruthless machinery of history and intrigue. England, the 16th Century. The devastating religious war and a bloody battle between two women – the queen of England and the queen of Scots – for reign over all of Britain.

Snake Skin

Dates

29/06/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
Scena przy Wierzbowej

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Snake Skin

author: Artur Urbański
original title: Skóra węża
director, set and lighting design: Artur Urbański
costume design: Magdalena Maciejewska
choreography: Tobiasz Sebastian Berg
video: Natalia Spychała

Artur Urbański directs his own play which main character is Ruth Berlau, one of Bertolt Brecht's closest associates and life companions. The year 1955. The young Polish director Konrad Swinarski joins the world-famous Berliner Ensemble theatre as a trainee. He learns about the moving stories of women who contribute to the legend of the master and the great institution called "Brecht".

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Snake Skin

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Original Title: Skóra węża
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CHARLATANS

“When I’m not acting, life is black and white,” says the heroine of Pablo Remón’s play. Charlatans directed by Grzegorz Małecki, Polish preview: 13 June 2025.
HAMLET

Jan Englert crowns his twenty-eight seasons of artistic work at the National Theatre with a performance of Hamlet.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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