POLAND THEATER REVIEWS

It isn't easy to write about contemporary art - it's more symbolic, more intense, morea?? unsaid that classic one. The same show can be a Masterpiece for some, for others an utterance of foreign language - they will just open their eyes, hold a breath but don't understand a thing. For me Magolia was...

Last Premiere of Opera Wroclaw this season is going to take place in couple of days. And it will be huge!...

History of Poland is complex and complicated, exactly as human being. Main characters are not ordinary people but actors in a freak show which makes connotation individual-country even more arduous. ...

Moliere said that the duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. And this is exactly what happens in Teatr Polski during play I Cannot Get Married. It's a funny time worth to spend in a theatre and maybe get some lesson from it. You will experience some celebrities facing cameras, trying say ...

This play contains two pieces: Card Game and The Rite of Spring. Both are amazing, both are composed by Igor Stravinsky and both were not understood during its premieres. ...

I can say for sure that this play can be for everyone: a contemporary, vibrant version of big classic Faust is exposing new and friendly face for those who want to see an opera show stripped of excessive seriousness. Scenography, choir, characters are tailored to the 21st century 160 years after its...

"Boieng Boieng" has an answer to a question: Can we have it all? Can we have a lot of women and get along with it if we can pick up just one?...

Mickiewcz's masterpiece "Dziady" which play "Phantoms" is based on is one of most important opus in polish culture and awareness. You read this at school for multiple occasions, you watch it in theaters, listen on the radio, one way or another from time to time it crosses your way. As a Pole you kno...

This is a well known story: Don Giovanni - addictive seducer - struggles with live in temptations to meet consequences. Classic Opera from 18th century is still watched all over the world. 'Opera buffa' as Mozart described it himself should be comic but in this version the world „comic' doesn't co...

Kornel Mundruczo returned to TR Warszawa with a strong need of making a play about Polish women. After he found Kata Wéber's (his long-standing co-worker, playwright) note containing a scene which was about a relationship between a mother and a daughter, He encouraged Kata Werber to develop a whole...

This play is like a good apple pie. It's warm, classic, sweet, comforting and perfect for long winter evenings. It's an ideal way to let your hair down. Play had a premiere 11 years ago but it is timeless. Wojciech Dabrowski, who also played one of lead roles, as director made a great, emotional, co...

The starting point of Kornel Mundruczo's 'The Bat' based on 'Die Fledermaus' by Johan Strauss II, is the director's memories from the past about his grandmother. During the last ten years of her life, she began to lose her grasp on reality. On New Year's Eve, the whole family used to meet at her hou...

Between 1968 and 1971, thirteen thousand Polish Jews were forced to leave Poland, their homeland. After The Six-Day War in 1967 (the creation of the State of Israel) and students' protests at Polish universities, Wladyslaw Gomulka, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Wo...

The Tin Drum is a popular novel on which new show in Capital was based. Wrote on 1959 tells a story about Oskar - born in Gda?sk, he decides never to grow up as a protest against adults and reality of multicultural city. Gifted with a voice that can shatter glass he tries to survive in a World War ...

13 years after the incredible success of „Krum', Krzystof Warlikowski returns to Levin's work at the Nowy Teatr. This time, he chose one of Levin's most popular dramas - 'Suitcase Packers'. In 'Krum',  the title character returns from a long journey to his homeland, still having hope for fulfillm...

It will be colder… That statement is fulfilling director vision and as innocent as it may sounds has very strong message behind....

There are two kind of people on this planet: those who love Bruno Shultz and his a-realist way of describing a reality and other part. If the second case is yours you will be just amazed by music and what you see on stage. If you are in the first group you will just not believe how good it is what y...