Performance with English subtitles.

In Alejandro Moreno Jashés' Black Parrots, the protagonist's eyes at the moment of ecstasy or a heart attack refuse to cooperate and, turning their backs on the world, begin their journey deep into the human body. However, there is no inner light in the human body, only darkness, which – contrary to the logic of sight – becomes a source of subsequent ecstasies for the two eye balls.

Published in 1903, Stanisław Wyspiański's drama presents a political, but also highly personal conflict between the representatives of various authorities.

Enchanted by the worlds of Hobbit, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, we often forget about our own home-grown mythology: our Slavic gods, heroes and beasts. They tend to live in our consciousness only in an infantile, primitive form. So how about trying to actually revisit this realm?

Performance with English subtitles

So far known for her intriguing plays for adult audiences, this time Agnieszka Olsten focuses on three stories from Stanisław Lem's series Fables for Robots.

Fern Flower is a family play inspired by the work of Stanisław Wyspiański and a classic fairy tale about the search for the unattainable. How to achieve immortality? Is it at all possible? And at what cost?

‘In Poland the mystery of Hamlet is the following: what in Poland is there to think about’.

These are Wyspiański's words from his Study on Hamlet, written feverishly in several days – a work that constitutes a source of inspiration for many Polish directors. Wyspiański contained therein his fascination with the phenomenon of theatre, his love for the brilliant text, and his great desire to read it so profoundly as to shake the conscience of his compatriots.

In this play, the authors tackle the basic questions of today's Poland: Should we always look back to the past? Who should be honoured and for what?

The country is in turmoil. One can no longer stand by and just watch. Psychological violence turns into physical violence. In pursuit of freedom and independence, no one accepts a compromise anymore.

Yet another group in the sanatorium. New patients arrive at the springs to regain their health, profit from treatments and exercise, go for walks and, above all, dance. The director of the centre – Józef Dietl – is an outstanding doctor. A doctor who understands that treatment will not work without love or at least a spafling.