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

    Dates

    13/12/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    14/12/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    16/12/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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

    author: Joan Lindsay
    stage adaptation, dramaturgy: Małgorzata Maciejewska
    director: Lena Frankiewicz
    stage adaptation and dramaturgy: Małgorzata Anna Maciejewska
    set, costume and lighting design: Katarzyna Borkowska
    music: Cezary Duchnowski
    choreography: Marta Ziółek
    video: Natan Berkowicz
    stunt & special effect: Andrzej Słomiński

    The new theatrical version of the Australian prose classics. 1900. On a hot, stormy day, Mrs Appleyard's boarding school residents go on a picnic near Hanging Rock. 

     

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    Poetry Emergency

    Dates

    14/12/2025 12:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Poetry Emergency

    Series of poetry meeting. Concept and Script: Krystyna Gucewicz

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    Infinite Jest

    Dates

    13/12/2025 19:00 Premiera
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    14/12/2025 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    16/12/2025 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Infinite Jest

    author: David Foster Wallace
    title: Niewyczerpany żart
    original title: Infinite Jest
    translator: Jolanta Kozak
    stage adaptation and direction: Kamil Białaszek
    set design: Julia Zawadzka
    costume design: Sławek Blaszewski
    lighting design: Tadeusz Pyrczak
    choreography: Bartosz Dopytalski
    multimedia: Michał Mitoraj, Hubert Kozarzewski
    music, sound engineering: Mateusz Augustyn, Bartłomiej Gargula (Barto Katt)

    Work of Kamil Białaszek intersects with a legend of postmodernism, David Foster Wallace, whose Infinite Jest is considered a milestone in American literature of the 1990s. This disturbingly timely, over 1,000-page novel raises questions about the paths we take due to our thoughtless pursuit of entertainment and media addiction.

     

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    Flea the Swindler

    Dates

    17/12/2025 12:00
    Scena Studio

    18/12/2025 12:00
    Scena Studio

    10/01/2026 12:00
    Scena Studio

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    Flea the Swindler

    author: Jan Brzechwa
    original title: Pchła Szachrajka
    music: Maciej Małecki 
    director: Anna Seniuk 

    What a rumpus! Endless transformations, games and dances. Tremendous fun and great laughs – not just for kids! Show recommended for young audiences of ages 4 and up.

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    Hamlet

    Dates

    19/12/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    20/12/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    21/12/2025 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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    How to Be Loved

    Dates

    20/12/2025 16:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    21/12/2025 16:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    How to Be Loved

    author: Kazimierz Brandys
    original title: Jak być kochaną
    director: Lena Frankiewicz
    stage adaptation and dramaturgy: Małgorzata Anna Maciejewska
    set and lighting design: Agata Skwarczyńska 
    music: Kamil Pater 
    choreography: Marta Ziółek
    video projections: Szymon Rogiński
    fight choreography: Przemysław Wyszyński

    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.

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    The Charlatans

    Dates

    20/12/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    21/12/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    04/01/2026 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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    Heaven and Hell

    Dates

    03/01/2026 15:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    03/01/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    04/01/2026 12:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Heaven and Hell

    author: Maria Wojtyszko
    original title: Piekło – Niebo
    direction: Jakub Krofta
    dramaturgy: Maria Wojtyszko
    set and costume design: Matylda Kotlińska
    music: Grzegorz Mazoń
    lighting design: Damian Pawella
    video: Jakub Lech
    stage movement: Leszek Bzdyl
    Heaven and Hell is a moving family comedy full of fairy-tale elements. In a familiar, earthly reality, we are able to spy on the inhabitants of Heaven and Hell who are usually invisible – archangels, devils, Saint Peter, the Virgin Mary, and even God himself! The dialogue sparkles with humour, and the story surprises not only the audience, but also the characters in the drama. Show recommended for young audiences of ages 10 and up.

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    King Lear

    Dates

    09/01/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    10/01/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    11/01/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    King Lear

    author: William Shakespeare
    original title: The Tragedy of King Lear
    translator: Stanisław Barańczak
    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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    Mother Joan of the Angels

    Dates

    10/01/2026 16:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    11/01/2026 16:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Mother Joan of the Angels

    author: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
    text based on the film script by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and Tadeusz Konwicki
    director, set and lighting design: Wojciech Faruga
    costumes design: Konrad Parol
    music: Teoniki Rożynek
    dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska  
    stage movement: Krystian Łysoń 

    A young exorcist, Father Suryn, arrives in Ludyń on the outskirts of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It is said that the local monastery was taken over by the devil. What do nuns experience? 

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    Performance

    Original Title: Los Farsantes
    Author: Pablo Remón
    Director: Grzegorz Małecki
    Heaven and Hell

    Heaven and Hell

    Performance

    Author: Maria Wojtyszko
    Director: Jakub Krofta
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    Mary Stuart

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    Author: Friedrich Schiller
    Director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski

    • 2025-26 Season

      A panorama of various Polish fates, social themes, and reflections on transience and ecology. Five premieres, including a world premiere. 

    • THE POLISH THERMOPYLAE

      In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. Opening Night: 22 November 2025

    • INFINITY JEST

      Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace directed by Kamil Białaszek | Opening Night: 13 December 2025 

    • 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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