Plays

Act of Killing is a theatrical adaptation of Joshua Oppenheimer's acclaimed, award-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary. The production will be directed by Jan Klata.

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.

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...

[...] 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.

‘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.

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.

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.

One of the most controversial figures in Polish politics in recent decades, people's tribune, founder of 'Samoobrona' [Self-Defence] party. His turbulent political activity – from organiser of farmers' blockades and strikes, to the position of deputy prime minister and deputy speaker of the Sejm, through to his mysterious suicide in 2011 – prompts us to take a closer look at his personal story, but also at the situation of the entire social sector he represented, heavily affected by the transformation of the 1990s.

Two doctors: Józef Dietl – a retired doctor and the president of Krakow, and young Stanisław Kurkiewicz – the pioneer of Polish sexology. They meet at the end of the 19th century in a Krakow salon in order to co-treat an elegant, mature female patient. With light-heartedness and humour, they reveal to us the secrets of the then Krakow, the Polish sexological terminology and... theatre.