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    Faust

    Dates

    25/09/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    11/10/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    12/10/2025 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Faust

    author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    original title: Faust. Eine Tragödie
    translator: Adam Pomorski
    direction: Wojciech Faruga
    dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
    set and light design, costume: Katarzyna Borkowska
    music: Teoniki Rożynek
    choreography, stage movement: Bartłomiej Gąsior

    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. It is also a reflection on the different stages of human life – Goethe started working on this story in his youth and continued into old age. Lastly, it is a mirror held up to European culture as a whole and one of its greatest masterpieces.

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    Other Delights

    Dates

    25/09/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    23/10/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    24/10/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Other Delights

    author: Jerzy Pilch
    original title: Inne rozkosze
    direction: Jacek Głomb
    stage adaptation: Robert Urbański
    set and costume design: Małgorzata Bulanda
    music: Bartosz Straburzyński
    stage movement: Witold Jurewicz
    lighting design: Jacek Głomb, Małgorzata Bulanda

    An amorous veterinarian must cope with a difficult situation. At the door of the house where he lives with his wife, his parents and his grandmother - a model protestant family - his lover appears, having come to "stay with him forever". An ordinary story of extraordinary love, a love which smites the hero with dramatic and theatrical force.


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    The Charlatans

    Dates

    26/09/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    27/09/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

    28/09/2025 19:00
    Scena Studio

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    The Charlatans

    author: Pablo Remón
    original title: Los farsantes
    translator: Paulina Eryka Masa
    direction: Grzegorz Małecki
    set and costume design: Martyna Kander
    music: Michał Lamża
    stage movement: Jarosław Staniek
    lighting design: Paulina Góral
    video: Jagoda Chalcińska

     “When I’m not acting, life is black and white,” says the heroine of Pablo Remón’s play. And thus she makes her acting dreams come true. Others also crave success. But what is the price of trying to be the best version of oneself?

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    Fredro. The Jubilee Year

    Dates

    27/09/2025 16:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    28/09/2025 16:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    18/10/2025 16:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Fredro. The Jubilee Year

    author: Aleksander Fredro
    script: Jan Englert, Tomasz Kubikowski, Wojciech Majcherek
    director: Jan Englert
    set design: Martyna Kander
    lighting design: Dariusz Pawelec
    montage of video projections: Milenia Fiedler

    Fredro, as a teenager, experienced the horrors and tragedies of war. Fredro took them in his stride with a lively, irreverent merriment. Fredro, reflective, Fredro, ageing, Fredro, had monuments erected in his name, yet he was put on trial, and his name dragged through the mud. Do you think you know him? Well, listen up.

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    The Theatre Maker

    Dates

    27/09/2025 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    28/09/2025 19:30 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    The Theatre Maker

    author: Thomas Bernhard
    original title: Der Theatermacher
    translator: Jacek St. Buras
    director: Andrzej Domalik
    set and costume design: Jagna Janicka
    music: Mateusz Dębski
    lighting design: Karolina Gębska

    The Theatre Maker by Thomas Bernhard, one of the pre-eminent playwrights of the second half of the 20th century. The title role is brought to life by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz. “To be honest, theatre, in general, is absurd, but to be honest… There's nothing you can do at all except kill yourself. … Well, since we haven't killed ourselves so far, we're still trying to keep making theatre… even if it is all completely absurd and false," says actor Bruscon, the main character in The Theatre Maker.

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    Kordian

    Dates

    01/10/2025 19:30 Pożegnanie z tytułem
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    02/10/2025 19:30 Pożegnanie z tytułem
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Kordian

    author: Juliusz Słowacki
    original title: Kordian
    author of the script and director: Jan Englert
    set design: Barbara Hanicka
    music: Stanisław Radwan
    choreography: Tomasz Wygoda
    lighting design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
    engineering design: Mirosław Łysik
    video films director: Marek Kozakiewicz
    animations: Michał Jankowski
    stunt & special effects: Andrzej Słomiński

    The Polish nation's tragic choice: to die heroically in the name of a noble idea or live a life "making shoes for dogs"? Premiere on 19 November 2015 on 250th Anniversary of the National Theatre

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    The Decalogue

    Dates

    03/10/2025 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    04/10/2025 16:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    05/10/2025 16:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    The Decalogue

    authors: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
    director: Wojciech Faruga
    author of stage adaptation: Davit Gabunia
    dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
    set, costumes and lighting design: Katarzyna Borkowska
    music: Bartosz Dziadosz
    choreography: Krystian Łysoń

     An iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz. A meditation upon the moral foundations of the present – in the 1980s and now.

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    Waiting for Godot

    Dates

    03/10/2025 19:30
    Scena Studio

    04/10/2025 19:30
    Scena Studio

    05/10/2025 19:30
    Scena Studio

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    Waiting for Godot

    author: Samuel Beckett
    original title: En attendant Godot
    translator: Antoni Libera
    director: Piotr Cieplak
    set and costume design: Andrzej Witkowski
    lighting design: Piotr Cieplak, Andrzej Witkowski

    Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power? And, are we still waiting?

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    King Lear

    Dates

    04/10/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    05/10/2025 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    King Lear

    author: William Shakespeare
    original title: The Tragedy of King Lear
    translator: Stanisław Barańczak
    direction: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
    set and light design, costume, video: Mirek Kaczmarek
    music: Aleksandra Gryka
    choreography: Wioleta Fiuk

     The King of Britain divides his kingdom between his three daughters to free himself from worries and hardships. However, before the decision he poses a question: which of you loves me the most? Can he expect honesty? Can honesty convince him? Is it possible to give up power, but not a desire to be obeyed? And can one understand one’s own declining years?

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    Faust

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    Original Title: Faust. Eine Tragödie
    Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Director: Wojciech Faruga
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    Author: Friedrich Schiller
    Director: Grzegorz Wiśniewski
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    Original Title: Skóra węża
    Author: Artur Urbański
    Director: Artur Urbański

    • THE POLISH THERMOPYLAE

      In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. Opening Night: 22 November 2025

    • CHARLATANS

      “When I’m not acting, life is black and white,” says the heroine of Pablo Remón’s play. Charlatans directed by Grzegorz Małecki, Polish preview: 13 June 2025.

    • HAMLET

      Jan Englert crowns his twenty-eight seasons of artistic work at the National Theatre with a performance of Hamlet.

    • HEAVEN AND HELL

      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. 

    • 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. 

    • 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 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. 

    • 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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