The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow

Rafał Szumera

I stumbled into the theatre by accident; it was raining. I was standing in the Holy Spirit Square all alone, soaking wet. At one point, the rainstorm had washed away the smog, and a magnificent castle appeared to my eyes, the one I had asked a goldfish for while fishing in the Vistula River one summer day to feed my family. It turned that they had a cafeteria in the theatre – so I don’t fish any more. One day I’d like to play Dratewka the Shoemaker or the Wawel Dragon. I don't like acting on Thursdays because I can't watch Sprawa dla reportera TV programme. All the best to you and have a great time with art!

Biography

Born in 1987, graduate of the PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow. He worked with the Rozmaitości Theatre during the International Theatre Festival in Edinburgh in 2012.

The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre cast him in such plays as: Władysław Reymont’s The Promised Land directed by Wojciech Kościelniak (2011), Mikhail Lermontov’s Masquerade directed by Nikolai Kolyada (2013), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz’s Bracia Dalcz i s-ka[The Dalcz Brothers and Co.] directed by Wojciech Kościelniak (2014), Etgar Keret’s Goodman directed by Agata Dyczko (2014), Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio directed by Jarosław Kilian (2015), William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet directed by Marcin Hycnar (2015), Honore de Balzac’s History of Decline directed by Małgorzata Warsicka (2016), Stanisław Wyspiański’s Liberation directed by Radosław Rychcik (2017).