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    Mary Stuart

    Dates

    11/09/2025 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.

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    Snake Skin

    Dates

    11/09/2025 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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    The Misanthrope

    Dates

    12/09/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    13/09/2025 16:00
    Scena Studio

    14/09/2025 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?

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    Hamlet

    Dates

    13/09/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    14/09/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    08/10/2025 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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    Baron von Münchhausen for Adults

    Dates

    13/09/2025 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    14/09/2025 19:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    08/10/2025 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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    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Dates

    17/09/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    18/09/2025 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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    Waiting for Godot

    Dates

    19/09/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    20/09/2025 19:30
    Scena Studio

    21/09/2025 19:30
    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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    The Wedding

    Dates

    20/09/2025 14:00 reż. Jan Klata | spektakl Narodowego Starego Teatru im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    20/09/2025 19:00 reż. Jan Klata | spektakl Narodowego Starego Teatru im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    21/09/2025 15:00 reż. Jan Klata | spektakl Narodowego Starego Teatru im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    The Wedding

    author: Stanisław Wyspiański
    original title: Wesele 
    direction, stage adaptation: Jan Klata
    set design, costumes, lights director: Justyna Łagowska
    choreography: Maćko Prusak
    music: Furia
    set designer assistant: Piotr Halter
    sound producers: Łukasz Kamiński, Adam Gajewski
    director's assistants: Paweł Sablik, Andrzej Błażewicz

     Jan Klata inaugurates his directorship at the National Theatre with a production of The Wedding from the Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Krakow.
    Wrapped in black plastic, the tree stump, and the empty chapel create a disquieting backdrop where two separate worlds can meet. The two sides – the blasé city-dwellers devoid of verve and charisma and the bawdy “folk” full of vivacity and blindly seeking a vent for their emotions – only unite in moments of trance-like dance to the beat of the black metal band Furia. 

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    The Decalogue

    Dates

    20/09/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    21/09/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    03/10/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    The Decalogue

    authors: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
    director: Wojciech Faruga
    author of stage adaptation: Davit Gabunia
    dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
    set, costumes and lighting design: Katarzyna Borkowska
    music: Bartosz Dziadosz
    choreography: Krystian Łysoń

     An iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz. A meditation upon the moral foundations of the present – in the 1980s and now.

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    Faust

    Faust

    Performance

    Original Title: Faust. Eine Tragödie
    Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Director: Wojciech Faruga
    Mary Stuart

    Mary Stuart

    Performance

    Author: Friedrich Schiller
    Director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
    Snake Skin

    Snake Skin

    Performance

    Original Title: Skóra węża
    Author: Artur Urbański
    Director: Artur Urbański

    • 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

    • 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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