Balladyna
Author: Juliusz Słowacki
Is the fight for rightful ideas worth murder?
Juliusz Słowacki's ‘Balladyna’ is a story about taking power in the face of the end of the world. A world in which it is too late to establish a new order. It is also a story about the proximity of the world of nature, which nowadays claims its initial rights more forcefully than ever before. Finally, it is a story about a world of women that has taken hold in an era in which it is too late for everything.
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Black Parrots
Author: Alejandro Moreno Jashés
Direction: Michał Borczuch
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.
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Dragon!
Author: Jakub Roszkowski
Text and direction: Jakub Roszkowski
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Grand Stage
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?
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Fables for Robots
Author: Stanisław Lem
Direction: Agnieszka Olsten
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.
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Fern flower
Direction: Jakub Krofta
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Grand Stage
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?
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God of Carnage
Author: Yasmina Reza
Direction: Marek Gierszał
A Polish premiere of one of the most important comedies of the 21st century, which scores triumphs on stages all over the world! Its popularity further increased thanks to Roman Polański's star-studded movie titled Carnage.
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Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare / Stanisław Wyspiański
Direction: Bartosz Szydłowski
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Grand Stage
‘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.
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Hamlet [COPY]
Author: William Shakespeare / Stanisław Wyspiański
‘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.
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Jacquerie
Author: Jakub Roszkowski
Direction: Jakub Roszkowski
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow - The Machine House [Miniature] Stage
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.