Although Maria Wojtyszko's play touches upon the painful subject of losing loved ones, Jakub Krofta's deft staging provides light entertainment for the whole family. Premiere: 22 February 2025
OTHER DELIGHTS
This adaptation of the novel Other Delights is the second staging of one of Jerzy Pilch's works at the National Theatre, following The Holy Father's Skis.
FAUST
Faust is a story based on an ancient legend of a scholar who yearns so much for just a moment of happiness that he makes a pact with the devil.
FEBLIK
Małgorzata Maciejewska's surprising drama received the Tadeusz Różewicz Drama Award in 2022, the competition's first year. The show is directed by Lena Frankiewicz.
A DREAM PLAY
After the well-received Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Sławomir Narloch returned to the National Theatre with another premiere – A Dream Play by Strindberg.
KING LEAR
King Lear may be Shakespeare's boldest examination of human nature. Jan Englert will play the title role in the National Theatre's production.
WAITING FOR GODOT
"What do we do now? Wait. [...] We're waiting for Godot". Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot by Beckett. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power?
FREDRO: THE JUBILEE YEAR
To celebrate 230 years since Aleksander Fredro's birth, the National Theatre invites you to an evening dedicated to the life and works of Poland’s greatest comedy writer.
TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS
Małgorzata Bogajewska directs for the second time at the National Theatre. This time she draws on Ödön von Horváth's 1931 drama.
THE THEATRE MAKER
The play by Thomas Bernhard, one of the most outstanding playwrights of the second half of the 20th century. In the title role – Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.
ALICE'S WONDERLAND
Have you ever quarreled with the Time or visited a forest where things have no names? Alice’s Wonderland is a musical performance based on the famous novel by Lewis Carroll.
THE MISANTHROPE
Jan Englert stages a classic play by Molière. What is Alcest's misanthropy: an uncompromising commitment to the truth or a doomed uprising against social conventions?
THE BOOKS OF JACOB
In the middle of the 18th century Jacob Frank proclaimed the new principles of the Jewish faith. This is a staging of the most important novel by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk.
THE DECALOGUE
A meditation upon the moral foundations of the present – an iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz.
MARY STUART
Grzegorz Wiśniewski returns to the classic drama about human passions interwoven in a ruthless machinery of history and intrigue.
MÜNCHHAUSEN FOR ADULTS
Baron von Münchhausen lived in the 18th century and told incredible stories about himself. Maciej Wojtyszko directs his own play about the famous adventurer and mystifier.
Solidarity with Ukraine | Солідарні з Україною
The ensemble of the National Theatre stands in solidarity with the Ukrainians who are fighting for the independence of their homeland.
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
1900. On a hot, stormy day, Mrs Appleyard's boarding school residents go on a picnic near Hanging Rock. The new theatrical version of the Australian prose classics.
SNAKE SKIN
Artur Urbański directs his own play which main character is Ruth Berlau, one of Bertolt Brecht's closest associates and life companions.
AUTUMN SONATA
A story about the need for love and acceptance, about an inherited emotional coldness, about the psychological costs of creativity. A theatrical version of a film script by Ingmar Bergman.
MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS
A performance about the need to experience something that surpasses us. In the title role of the prioress – Małgorzata Kożuchowska.
HEDDA GABLER
Hedda Gabler – work by Henrik Ibsen, a master of psychological realism – in stage interpretation of director Kuba Kowalski is a poetic performance.
HOW TO BE LOVED
This is the performance about love and moral responsibility for another person as well as the mechanisms controlling human memory. The dramatisation of the story by Kazimierz Brandys.
LUNGS
Briliant, full of humour and touching love story of a young couple. Breakups and comebacks, passion and sex, the first important decisions and the search for meaning in a complex, modern world.
UHLANS
The Museum of All-Time Polish Uhlans. Exhibits of the national exacerbation. A serious comedy in three acts about the entanglement in myths of Polishness.
THE IMAGE MAKERS
The truth about the essence of creation and responsibility in art. Director Viktor Sjöström is working on the film The Phantom Carriage, based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf.
FOREFATHER'S EVE
Mickiewicz's poetic drama interpreted by Lithuanian Master Eimuntas Nekrošius — theatre visionary known for his unique theatrical language.
KORDIAN
The Polish nation's tragic choice: to die heroically in the name of a noble idea or live a life "making shoes for dogs"? — the alternative presented to Kordian in two parables.
FLEA THE SWINDLER
Tremendous fun and great laughs – not just for kids. The antics of the Flea are directed by Anna Seniuk with the music composed by Maciej Małecki.
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