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    Faust

    Dates

    21/01/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    22/01/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Faust

    author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    original title: Faust. Eine Tragödie
    translator: Adam Pomorski
    direction: Wojciech Faruga
    dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
    set and light design, costume: Katarzyna Borkowska
    music: Teoniki Rożynek
    choreography, stage movement: Bartłomiej Gąsior

    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. It is also a reflection on the different stages of human life – Goethe started working on this story in his youth and continued into old age. Lastly, it is a mirror held up to European culture as a whole and one of its greatest masterpieces.

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    Baron von Münchhausen for Adults

    Dates

    22/01/2026 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    23/01/2026 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    24/01/2026 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Baron von Münchhausen for Adults

    author: Maciej Wojtyszko
    original title: Baron Münchhausen dla dorosłych
    director: Maciej Wojtyszko
    set design: Wojciech Stefaniak
    costume design: Martyna Kander
    music: Irina Blokhina
    lighting design: Karolina Gębska
    stunt & special effect: Andrzej Słomiński

    Maciej Wojtyszko directs his own play about the famous adventurer and mystifier. Baron von Münchhausen lived in the 18th century and told incredible stories about himself, and thus entered literature as a half-fantasy, half-real character. To this day, it is unclear what he made up about himself and what was attributed to him.


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    Waiting for Godot

    Dates

    23/01/2026 19:00
    Scena Studio

    24/01/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena Studio

    25/01/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena Studio

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    Waiting for Godot

    author: Samuel Beckett
    original title: En attendant Godot
    translator: Antoni Libera
    director: Piotr Cieplak
    set and costume design: Andrzej Witkowski
    lighting design: Piotr Cieplak, Andrzej Witkowski

    Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power? And, are we still waiting?

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    Mary Stuart

    Dates

    24/01/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    25/01/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    27/01/2026 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.

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    Uhlans

    Dates

    27/01/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    28/01/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Uhlans


    author: Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz
    original title: Ułani
    director: Piotr Cieplak
    costume, set and lighting design: Andrzej Witkowski 
    music: Paweł Czepułkowski
    literary collaborator: Barbara Klicka 
    animated images: Antoni Witkowski

    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.

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    The Misanthrope

    Dates

    29/01/2026 19:00
    Scena Studio

    30/01/2026 19:00
    Scena Studio

    04/02/2026 19:00
    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?

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    Alice's Wonderland

    Dates

    31/01/2026 16:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    01/02/2026 16:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    03/02/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Alice's Wonderland

    author: Lewis Carroll
    title: Alice's Wonderland after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 
    translator: Maciej Słomczyński
    author of stage adaptation, lyrics, direction: Sławomir Narloch
    set and costume design: Martyna Kander
    music: Jakub Gawlik
    choreography: Anna Hop
    vocal preparation: Magdalena Czuba
    lighting design: Karolina Gębska

    Have you ever quarrelled with Time or visited a forest where things have no names? Isn’t it weird that the body of a Snap-Dragonfly is made of plum pudding? Alice’s Wonderland is a musical performance based on the famous novel by Lewis Carroll. Show recommended for young audiences for ages 10 and up. 


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    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Dates

    31/01/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    01/02/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    03/02/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    author: Ödön von Horváth
    original title: Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald
    translator: Barbara Swinarska
    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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    Hamlet

    Dates

    05/02/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    06/02/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    07/02/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Hamlet

    author: William Shakespeare
    original title: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
    translator: Stanisław Barańczak
    direction: Jan Englert
    set design: Wojciech Stefaniak
    costume: Martyna Kander
    music: Aleksandra Gryka
    choreography: Tomasz Wygoda
    light design: Karolina Gębska
    video: Jagoda Chalcińska
    fight choreography: Przemysław Wyszyński

    Jan Englert crowns his twenty-eight seasons of artistic work at the National Theatre with a performance of Hamlet. Should we believe the spirits of our ancestors? Should we believe anyone, for that matter? What is true and what is false at the Court of Elsinore?

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    The Charlatans

    Dates

    06/02/2026 19:00
    Scena Studio

    07/02/2026 19:00
    Scena Studio

    08/02/2026 19:00
    Scena Studio

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    The Charlatans

    author: Pablo Remón
    original title: Los farsantes
    translator: Paulina Eryka Masa
    direction: Grzegorz Małecki
    set and costume design: Martyna Kander
    music: Michał Lamża
    stage movement: Jarosław Staniek
    lighting design: Paulina Góral
    video: Jagoda Chalcińska

     “When I’m not acting, life is black and white,” says the heroine of Pablo Remón’s play. And thus she makes her acting dreams come true. Others also crave success. But what is the price of trying to be the best version of oneself?

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    The Polish Thermopylae

    The Polish Thermopylae

    Performance

    Original Title: Termopile polskie
    Author: Tadeusz Miciński
    Stage adaptation and direction: Jan Klata
    Charlatans

    Charlatans

    Performance

    Original Title: Los Farsantes
    Author: Pablo Remón
    Director: Grzegorz Małecki
    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Performance

    Original Title: Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald
    Author: Ödön von Horváth
    Director: Małgorzata Bogajewska

    • THE POLISH THERMOPYLAE

      In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. 

    • INFINITE JEST

      Premiere staged by Kamil Białaszek. His work intersects with a legend of postmodernism, David Foster Wallace. 

    • CHARLATANS

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

    • 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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