1989
Direction: Katarzyna Szyngiera
Music: Andrzej "Webber" Mikosz
: Marcin Napiórkowski , Katarzyna Szyngiera , Mirosław Wlekły
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Grand Stage
1989 is a production directed by Katarzyna Szyngiera featuring formal references to 'Hamilton'. Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary musical introduced rap to Broadway, proposing a novel language of storytelling attractive to both younger and older audiences. The person behind the sound of our musical is one of the best Polish rap producers – Andrzej Mikosz "Webber", known e.g. for his long-term collaboration with "Łona".
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Agamemnon
Author: Rodrigo Garcia
Direction, lights: Szymon Kaczmarek
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A father, a ruler, a husband, a commander. This mythical archetype constitutes a starting point for García in his confrontation with the audience. The title itself makes the protagonist of his text more than just a father, shopping for his family. He resembles Michael Douglas in Falling Down, who lets go of all his inhibitions. He cannot stand the lies, the shallowness and the pettiness of the surrounding reality. He treats all his social and family connections to a brutal therapy.
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Australia
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Botticelli
Author: Jordan Tannahill
: Marta Orczykowska
Direction: Paweł Świątek
Florence, the reign of the Medici family. The apex of painting, but also time of plague and social unrest. Botticelli, favoured by the rulers, was commissioned to paint a portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici's wife. And thus ‘The Birth of Venus’ comes into being, with a significant contribution of Botticelli’s gifted young student – Leonardo da Vinci. The two men develop a feeling for each other...
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Cracks of Existence
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[...] one cannot be satisfied with the role of an unwitting performer of existential activities. And inself-defence,
one must pursue the meaning of everyday life as if it were a lurking criminal.
We are going to philosophise. Though perhaps philosophising may seem like the wrong term in this case, because it is associated with the mind, and here it's about philosophising with the body, philosophising about what we experience, and how we experience it as carnal beings. As beings in female bodies. Philosophising is mostly associated with the "heights" of the human (meaning: male) intellect, and to many it seems the opposite of a daily routine filled with trivial activities. We, on the other hand, wish to philosophise about the ordinary, the banal, the trivial, about the cleaning up, the busyness, the puttering around and tending to everything. About the daily labour that is the essence of our existence. This is where we’ll be searching for the meaning and properties of our human-female existence. In the existential reality that takes the form of a washcloth, a cherry fruit or a piece of meat.
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God, Me and Money
Text, direction, set design:: Maciej Wojtyszko
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‘God, Me and Money’ is a somewhat amusing, somewhat sad story about great love. Love that sometimes overtakes us completely unexpectedly...
We meet the protagonist, Maria, while she's doing her daily shopping. This seemingly ordinary situation turns out to be the starting point of fascinating and moving confessions of a mature woman, who is at the same time naive and wise, lost and heroic, ordinary and extraordinary.
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Heart of Glass. A Zen Musical
: Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak , Maria Peszek
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Grand Stage
Krakow premiere: 21 September 2024 on the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre's Grand Stage
Warsaw premiere: 19 April 2024 on the Józef Szajna Grand Stage at STUDIO
'Heart of Glass. A Zen Musical' based on Hans Christian Andersen's “The Snow Queen” and Maria Peszek's ‘Naku*wiam zen’[I’m F***ing Chill] is a musical performance in which Andersen's fairy-tale reality clashes with the concreteness of the real-life biographies of two acclaimed artists, father and daughter – Jan Peszek and Maria Peszek. Am I even capable of love? – this question, posed by Jan a few months after his heart attack, becomes a trigger point for a musical anatomy of the heart, of loving and of love. 'Heart of Glass. A Zen Musical' is an irreverent, promiscuous and tender meditation on emptiness, body, love, Poland past and present, saints, farts, hopelessness and death in a musical arrangement by Andrzej Smolik. It is an expedition of the STUDIO and Słowacki Theatre companies as well as Jan and Maria Peszek's through the frosty nights of the ‘winter of the century’, remote swamps, empty churches, ecstasies, life and creative crises, the darkness of the Zbójniczka castle and the Teofilów estate, and through other wicked places.
The standard reading of H. Ch. Andersen's 'Snow Queen' is based on recreating an ethical system deeply rooted in Christian morality. In the musical staged by STUDIO and Słowacki Theatre, the fairy tale's critique of intellect, demonisation of carnality and sexuality, and censorship of desire, disintegrate when faced with the life stories of Maria and Jan, who draw their strength from a chronic need for understanding through a process of constant questioning and contestation. In ‘Heart of Glass’ – together with the ensembles of both theatres, they ask questions to which we have ready answers by now; they venture into the worst territories, confronting us with the uncomfortable, the unwanted and the repugnant; they search anew for a relationship with each other and with other people, beyond the usual patterns of the ‘good family’; and, above all, they remain in a state of constant non-knowledge and affirmation of life ‘in spite of everything’.
LISTEN! LET'S START!
WHEN WE REACH THE END OF THIS TALE,
WE WILL KNOW MORE THAN WE DO NOW,
SINCE THIS STORY IS TRULY WICKED.
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IMPRO KRK
An improvised performance by the Impro Krk Group, based on spontaneity and creating a script in front of the audience.
The Impro Krk Group is a Krakow-based group of improvisers formed in June 2016. It consists mostly of professional actors, graduates of the Krakow's Academy of Theatre Arts. They base their work on the method developed by Keith Johnstone, one of the pioneers of improvised theatre in the world. Their mentor is Steen Haakon Hansen, Johnstone's long-time friend and collaborator, who has often given workshops at the Łaźnia Nowa Theatre and recently also at Krakow's Academy of Theatre Arts.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Wyspiański Is Dying
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It’s not, however, a story about dying, but about living. About buffoonery, egoism, jealousy, cruelty and pride. As well as about dreams, art and love. Our production is not a glorification of the Fourth Bard.
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Late Company
Author: Jordan Tannahill
Direction, text, musical arrangement: Iwona Kempa
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Machine House [Miniature] Stage
It starts a bit like Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage: two married couples come together discuss a problem that has driven their children apart. This time, however, it will not be funny as the matter itself does not inspire jokes. Exclusion, cyberbullying, and finally suicide – these are the issues addressed in this text, sparking post-show discussions among the audience members s in Canada and the West End. How can this story resonate in Poland? In today's Poland?