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A beautiful beginning

“A Beautiful Beginning” is a unique production that explores what could have been if we took a closer look at iconic film characters and examined them in more detail than Hollywood cameras allow.

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AlphaGo_Lee. Theory of Sacrifice

The international performative project titled AlphaGo_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice explores the influence of artificial intelligence and machine learning on the image of human civilization.

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AN ELDERLY WOMAN POISED

Tadeusz Różewicz confronts contemporary civilizational crises by creating the Elderly Woman – a fictional character whose wisdom, ironic sense of humor and clarity of mind offer relief and hope.

21ST CIAŁO/UMYSŁ FESTIVAL

ANDA, DIANA

No more apologies for the non-normative body – this body is revolution!
I want to speak of what we conceal. I did not exist almost my entire life because of the belief of having to exist in a body that was not my own.

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Aria di potenza

An open-air opera happening directed by Krystian Lady and combined with a presentation of Gosia Baczyńska's fashion collection on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of her artistic work. On the stage next to the first lady of the Polish opera Małgorzata Walewska, the American baritone singer Lucia Lucas and the French male soprano Théo Imart will perform for the first time in Poland.

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

(…) The performance is built, above all, on strong acting personalities, with each individual giving a show to the best of their ability.

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Bowie in Warsaw

The “Bowie in Warsaw” premiere is a detective stage play directed by Marcin Liber. Conceived around the artist’s legendary visit, the production is an ode to love, especially the unrequited and undeveloped kind. This is Warsaw you have never heard of.

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Bull

“Bull” is the second, after “Humility”, dramatic text by Szczepan Twardoch, author of bestselling novels, including “The King”, “Morphine” and “Drach”. The hero of the monodrama is Robert Mamok who struggles with his class and ethnic identity, in two languages: Polish and Silesian.

21ST CIAŁO/UMYSŁ FESTIVAL

CAFÉ MÜLLER

Café, darkness, fall, rise, red-haired woman and silence, or a fan fiction inspired by Pina Bausch’s iconic performance.

Chroma

Based on CHROMA: A BOOK OF COLOUR © Copyright 1994 by Derek Jarman

Dead City

Deep Godot

Demons

Devils, demons want to instil in our heads the thought that homicide has ceased to be a murder and that we are free, after the intoxication of killing ourselves and others. It is a lesson of totalitarianism and learning unhappiness.

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EXPEDITION TEMPEST

When a stranded Polar expedition is threatened with slow death, its crew decides to stage William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST aboard their ship. The struggle to perform becomes for them the struggle to survive – a way not to go mad in inhumanely harsh conditions.

Hamer

Swimmer and activist, winner of 173 medals – including at World and European Championships, one of the leaders of the protest of people with disabilities who made the first coming out in Polish sports. This time, she will perform as the first sit-up in the world. Sit-up is a taunt to make us think. A brand-new, comedy-drama solo stage formula.

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Heart of Glass. A Zen Musical

“Heart of Glass. A Zen Musical” inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and Maria Peszek’s “Naku*wiam zen” is a musical production in which Andersen’s fairytale-like reality collides with the nitty-gritty of real biographies of two accomplished artists, father and daughter – Jan Peszek and Maria Peszek.

I AM (VR)

I Will Try To Tell You, But It Won't Go Well

I wish to explore the ways in which war, which happened here almost a century ago, continues to be present, continues to shape our experience of the world and of ourselves – and how can we share and process this experience?

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I'm fine

Cezary – a director and partner of Norbert who died in tragic circumstances – returns to the stage in order to reconstruct his solo play. “I'M FINE - a solo-show filled with somewhat jolly songs and a single sad one” – such was the title of the personal, humorous story in which Norbert would so lightly and wittily talk about himself, life and everyday problems.

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Island of Eatopia

“Jadłonomia Island” is a culinary-travel-crime-revolutionary play for children and youth inspired by “Jadłonomia” – a series of incredibly popular Polish vegan cookbooks written by Marta Dymek, and the philosophy of plant-based cooking which the author promotes. It is a play that encourages green activism in the area of your own plate and your own world.

Krasz

Crash is a theatrical grotesque comedy set in a foreseeable future. Dir. Natalia Korczakowska. Stage adaptation of "Crash" – a novel by J. G. Ballard

LAVAGEM

Purification, washing, brainwashing and other forms of cleaning – from the bursts of energy to lyricism.
In the latest work by Alice Ripoll and Cia REC, reality and fantasy mix in a delirious atmosphere reminiscent of an apocalyptic dream.

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Mahagonny. Ein Songspiel / Afterparty

Play MAHAGONNY. AFTERPARTY consists of two parts: MAHAGONNY – EIN SONGSPIEL (30 min, 6 songs) by Weill and Brecht, and AFTERPARTY by a Polish composer based in the Netherlands, Kasia Głowicka – a piece with lyrics by Bartosz FISZ Waglewski. The entire production maintains the form of a songspiel in which the story is told through songs and musical interludes.

Mechanical Souls

Mechanical Souls is a collaborative immersive live experience, powered by VR, analytic engine, live actors, and your own sleuthing skills.

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More than one specimen

"More than one specimen" combines nature mockument with an emotional concert of pop music. Inspired by the world of wild animals and the performers’ own experience, the project aims to overcome the traditional narratives known from famous TV nature series.

Narcissism and depression

7 March 2022 Lecture by Andrzej Leder.

Ode to Joy

Wojtek Ziemilski won renown thanks to the lecture-performance titled “Small Narration” telling the story of his grandfather, Wojciech Dzieduszycki, and the controversy surrounding the disclosure of his cooperation with the Security Service (i.e. Secret Police) by the Institute of National Remembrance. “Ode to Joy” is the third play by Ziemilski in Studio Theatre. This acclaimed director, author and creator of performative installations in which conceptual thinking, reflection on language, community and stage fiction play a critical role, in his latest play returns to the subject of legacy and heritage.

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ORIANA FALLACI. The moment in which I died

A monodrama by Ewa Błaszczyk. Fallaci, one of the most expressive and "heard" journalists of her time, always explained that she writes about war, because war reveals what is real in people.

Paradise flooded

The overpowering and genre-defying Climate Trilogy by Thomas Köck is an ominous flood of things which carries with it scraps of meanings, pieces of images, degraded biographies, fates of victims, worn out notions and definitions, that washed up on the shore.

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Performers anonymous

During a meeting of an anonymous group therapy, performers invited by Nagabczyńska will tell their intimate stories and confide how far they are prepared to go in order to be noticed and watched. Genuinely autobiographical confessions and fictional self-creations will be subject to the process of incessant choreography.

PUPEK – Everything between East and West

PUPEK examines the complexities and intricate details of Central Europe. The eight dancers, the musicians and performers expose trite wisdoms and convenient generalizations using Milan Kundera's words. We all love our nation, but there were and are moments when our European identity transcends national boundaries.

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Requiem for a Dream

Director Jakub Skrzywanek reads Requiem for a Dream as a portrait of the present day: We are all high on something. We are lonely creatures, living most of our lives in fear, misunderstanding and exclusion. We may seek intimacy and connection, only to discover how deeply unhappy we are. We may cling to the belief that anger, courage or struggle might offer a way out. WARSAW PREMIERE: April 17, 2026

Serotonin

"Serotonin” written by Michel Houellebecq is a tragicomic story about depression and first theatrical adaptation of this loudest book of the year 2019. An acclaimed contemporary writer provokes once again with his diagnoses.

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Small Empiria

Monodram Eweliny Żak na podstawie eseju Katarzyny Sobczuk pod tym samym tytułem, spektakl o wzruszeniach, które przychodzą niespodziewanie. Reżyseria: Anna Ilczuk.

Sonic Portals: A subwoofer odyssey

In "Sonic Portals", its creator - Ciro Goudsmit - combines his research on low-frequency oscillators, with (afro) futuristic thinking: a possibility to curve “reality” and create alternative ones, where colonialization didn’t happen.

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The Employees

Performance-installation by Łukasz Twarkowski, one of the most interesting creators of his generation, based on the novel of a contemporary Danish author, Olga Ravn.

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The Empusium

The theatrical adaptation of the first Olga Tokarczuk’s novel published after her Nobel Prize is an excellent opportunity to reflect on what we actually know about the world and what remains beyond the scope of our vision.

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The end of Eddy

Anna Smolar's play, inspired by the novel The End of Eddy (En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule) by Édouard Louis, takes a closer look at systematic oppression and asks questions about loyalty to one's roots and social class origins.

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The Magical Wound

In The Magical Wound, Masłowska portrays the lives of several characters through a series of loosely connected stories. For the most part, the characters speak in the first person, from a distinctively individual perspective that is nevertheless not entirely independent of the environment in which they exist.

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes

Tosca

Transformations

a play about growing up for youth and adults. After the original production of “Frogs”, Michał Borczuch returns to STUDIO. This time, the director based his new play on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, actors’ improvisations and the text by Joanna Bednarczyk which was created in collaboration with young people involved in the play’s creative process.

UTERI MIGRANTES

Uteri Migrantes (wandering uteruses) is the fifth performance in the Private Pieces cycle. In this series, the choreographer explores the politics of a female body, oscillating between the private and the public.

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Wasp Hunting. A Matter of Death and Life

One of the most infamous and most shocking crimes of the 1990s Poland. A brutal murder disguised as a robbery. Perpetrators: three high school seniors. Sentence: life in prison.

Where does melancholy currently hide?

21 March 2022 lecture by Mira Marcinów
Where does melancholy currently hide?

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WITKACY / Two-Headed Calf

I chose Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf as the basic text because the experience of endless and wild California nature is close to the experience of the tropical journey that Witkacy made with Bronisław Malinowski before writing his play.