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    The Morality of Mrs. Dulska

    Dates

    05/09/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    06/09/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    08/09/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    The Morality of Mrs. Dulska

    author: Gabriela Zapolska
    direction: Anna Augustynowicz
    set design: Marek Braun
    costume design: Tomasz Armada
    lighting design, video: Wojciech Kapela
    choreography: Bartosz Dopytalski
    costume design assistant: Filip Holak

     120 years after the world premiere of Gabriela Zapolska's acclaimed work, we once again turn to The Morality of Mrs. Dulska to examine what kind of dirty laundry is best washed at home. Anna Augustynowicz, staging a production at the National Theatre for the first time, will focus her interpretation of the canonical work on the issue of desire, something which consumes the heroines and heroes in a variety of ways. Unfulfilled ambitions, unquenched desires, unhealthy rivalry, and impure thoughts – all are to be found in this story of the most famous of Polish families.

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    Men Explain Things to Me

    Dates

    05/09/2026 19:30
    Scena Studio

    06/09/2026 19:30
    Scena Studio

    08/09/2026 19:30
    Scena Studio

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    Men Explain Things to Me

    author: Rebecca Solnit
    translator: Anna Dzierzgowska
    director: Klaudia Gębska
    stage adaptation: Mariusz Gołosz, Klaudia Gębska
    screenplay: Mariusz Gołosz 
    dramaturgy: Mariusz Gołosz, Patryk Kozłowski
    set, costume and light design: Julia Furdyna, Zofia Tomalska
    music: Olga Pasek
    choreography: Magdalena Kawecka

    At the National Theatre, Klaudia Gębska will stage the play Men Explain Things to Me, based on the most famous collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit – an author who supported the #metoo movement and inspired the term "mansplaining". 

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    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    Dates

    05/09/2026 16:30 Pokaz w ramach Generation After 10. Showcase. Artistic Intelligence
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    06/09/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    08/09/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    author: Olga Tokarczuk
    direction: Ewa Platt
    stage adaptation: Miłosz Markiewicz, Ewa Platt
    dramaturgy: Miłosz Markiewicz
    set and costume design: Anna Rogóż
    multimedia, lighting design: Antoni Grałek
    music: Dominik Ossowski

     As one of the most acclaimed books by Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, this multi-layered story explores both the most mundane things as well as that which is written in the stars. Janina Duszejko, the main character, is a person of extraordinary empathy, an empathy which she directs primarily towards those most vulnerable things that fall victim to human actions: animals.


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    Fredro. The Jubilee Year

    Dates

    11/09/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    12/09/2026 19:00
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    13/09/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    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

    11/09/2026 19:00 TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    12/09/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    27/09/2026 18:00 XXX Ogólnopolski Festiwal Komedii Talia w Tarnowie / pokaz w Teatrze im. Ludwika Solskiego w Tarnowie / sprzedaż biletów prowadzi Organizator Festiwalu
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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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    Flea the Swindler

    Dates

    12/09/2026 12:00
    Scena Studio

    13/09/2026 12:00
    Scena Studio

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    Flea the Swindler

    author: Jan Brzechwa
    original title: Pchła Szachrajka
    music: Maciej Małecki 
    director: Anna Seniuk 

    What a rumpus! Endless transformations, games and dances. Tremendous fun and great laughs – not just for kids! Show recommended for young audiences of ages 4 and up.

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    The Decalogue

    Dates

    15/09/2026 19:00
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    16/09/2026 19:00
    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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    The Polish Thermopylae

    Dates

    17/09/2026 19:00 Napisy w językach angielskim i ukraińskim
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    18/09/2026 19:00 Napisy w językach angielskim i ukraińskim | TEATR DLA SENIORÓW / TEATR DLA STUDENTÓW
    Sala Bogusławskiego

    19/09/2026 19:00 Napisy w językach angielskim i ukraińskim
    Sala Bogusławskiego

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    The Polish Thermopylae

    author: Tadeusz Miciński
    direction, stage adaptation and musical arrangements: Jan Klata
    dramaturgy: Miłosz Markiewicz
    set and lighting design: Justyna Łagowska
    costume design: Mirek Kaczmarek
    choreography: Maćko Prusak
    video: Natan Berkowicz
    live music: Gruzja

    In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. As he announces in his programme notes, it is "a phantasmagoria about the cursed fate of our corner of Europe. About Poland, Russia, Ukraine, about the shadow that Fate has cast on successive generations of History's cannon fodder."
    The premiere of The Polish Thermopylae will take place on November 22, 2025, to mark the 260th anniversary of the National Theatre.

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    Infinite Jest

    Dates

    18/09/2026 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    19/09/2026 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

    20/09/2026 18:30
    Scena przy Wierzbowej

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    Infinite Jest

    author: David Foster Wallace
    title: Niewyczerpany żart
    original title: Infinite Jest
    translator: Jolanta Kozak
    stage adaptation and direction: Kamil Białaszek
    set design: Julia Zawadzka
    costume design: Sławek Blaszewski
    lighting design: Tadeusz Pyrczak
    choreography: Bartosz Dopytalski
    multimedia: Michał Mitoraj, Hubert Kozarzewski
    music, sound engineering: Mateusz Augustyn, Bartłomiej Gargula (Barto Katt)

    Work of Kamil Białaszek intersects with a legend of postmodernism, David Foster Wallace, whose Infinite Jest is considered a milestone in American literature of the 1990s. This disturbingly timely, over 1,000-page novel raises questions about the paths we take due to our thoughtless pursuit of entertainment and media addiction.

     

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    Performance

    Original Title: Infinite Jest
    Author: David Foster Wallace
    Director: Kamil Białaszek
    The Polish Thermopylae

    The Polish Thermopylae

    Performance

    Original Title: Termopile polskie
    Author: Tadeusz Miciński
    Stage adaptation and direction: Jan Klata
    Fredro: The Jubilee Year

    Fredro: The Jubilee Year

    Performance

    Original Title: Fredro. Rok Jubileuszowy
    Author: Aleksander Fredro
    Director: Jan Englert

    • THE ORESTEIA

      Luk Perceval, one of the most important artists active in European theatre today, returns to the oldest surviving tragic trilogy. Premiere: 10 October 2026

    • THE POLISH THERMOPYLAE / «ПОЛЬСЬКІ ТЕРМОПІЛИ»

      The Polish Thermopylae with surtitles in English and Ukrainian / «ПОЛЬСЬКІ ТЕРМОПІЛИ» демонструється з субтитрами англійською та українською мовами.

    • DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD

      As one of the most acclaimed books by Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, directed by Ewa Platt. 

    • MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME

      Klaudia Gębska stages the play based on the most famous collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit. 

    • THE POLISH THERMOPYLAE

      In his first play at the National Theatre, director Jan Klata has opted for Tadeusz Miciński's The Polish Thermopylae. 

    • INFINITE JEST

      Premiere staged by Kamil Białaszek. His work intersects with a legend of postmodernism, David Foster Wallace. 

    • CHARLATANS

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

    • 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.