Opening Night: 2 March 2000
Author: Molière
Title: The School for Wives
Original Title: L’École des femmes
Translator: Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Director: Jan Englert

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 2 hours 10 min

The School for Wives

director: Jan Englert
set design: Andrzej Kreütz Majewski
music: Maciej Małecki
lighting design: Krzysztof Trzaskowski

Awards and Nominations:

2000 – nomination for the Warsaw Felix award in "the best theatre director" category for Jan Englert for direction of The School of Wives
2000 – The Andrzej Nardelli Award of Theatre Critics Section of the Association of Polish Stage Artists (ZASP) to Paulina Kinaszewska for the best acting debut of the 1999/2000 season for the role of Agnes
2001 – "The most pleasant actor" award of the VII National Festival of Pleasant Plays in Łódź to Jan Englert for the role of Arnolphe
2001 – "The most pleasant spectacle" award of the VII National Festival of Pleasant Plays in Łódź

Cast:

Arnolphe, or Mr Rosochacki / conductor Jan Englert
Agnes, a naive young girl raised by Arnolphe / violin II Paulina Kinaszewska / Aneta Todorczuk (as a guest actor from March 3, 2001 to August 31, 2002)
Horace, Agnes's lover / violin I Marcin Przybylski (guest actor)
Grzela, a peasant, Arnolphe's servant / guitar II Emilian Kamiński
Aggy, a peasant woman, Arnolphe's servant / cello Beata Ścibakówna
Chrysalde, Arnolphe's friend / drums Andrzej Blumenfeld
Enrique, Chrysalde's brother-in-law / harpsichord Mirosław Jastrzębski
Oronte, Horace's father and Arnolphe's old friend / Notary / Janitor of the orchestra Jerzy Łapiński
Servant I / guitar I Robert Czebotar (guest actor)
Servant II / clarinet Kacper Kuszewski (guest actor) / Mariusz Głębocki (guest actor)

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Mariusz Bieliński
  • set designer's assistants: Jadwiga Michalska, Anita Trzaskowska
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Korneliusz Wieczorek
    sound technicians: Rafał Barański, Mariusz Maszewski
  • prompter: Alina Wieczorkówna

Gallery:

Andrzej Blumenfeld (Chrysalde), Marcin Przybylski (Horace), Jan Englert (Arnolphe). Fot. Wojciech Plewiński

  • 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.


Korzystając z serwisu internetowego Teatru Narodowego akceptujesz zasady Polityki prywatności oraz wyrażasz zgodę na używanie plików cookie. Plik cookie możesz zablokować za pomocą opcji dostępnych w przeglądarce internetowej. Aby dowiedzieć się więcej na temat cookie, kliknij tutaj