Category: theater
Morgue Polonaise
Upcoming show: 18 April 2026, Grotowski Institute, Wrocław (PL) The community needs its dead to connect with the land. We find them in various places: in cemeteries, in street names, history textbooks, costume dramas, or as patrons of schools. A Polish-sounding surname on a foreign gravestone catches our eye: further proof of the country’s existence.…
Can you help me?
“His grandmother’s recollections of how Pawlak learned to crawl as a child are not a tearful account of a childhood burdened by disability, but rather a spirited tale. The actor, however, is constantly playing with the audience. Will he strike a chord? Or won’t he? He does both. And much more besides.” Anna Szamotuła, Kultura…
Freak show – performance
Is it possible to express sadness against the dominant ideologies of bodypositive and inspiration porn? How to build pride in what is socially accepted as an image of failure? And – how to skilfully ‘mutilate’ popular cultural clichés that set the social optics against all otherness? Freak show or performative mutilation of culture. But not…
Do what you want
Producer: Theatre21/ Centre for Inclusive Arts Warsaw, Poland The performance Do What You Want is Filip Pawlak’s attempt, based on his own history, to find an explanation of what alternative motorics is – a concept popularised by the choreographer Rafał Urbacki and still in circulation today. In his search, the artist delves into the archives…
Nowy Teatr Warsaw
From 2019 to 2022, I was a producer and, in season 21/22, head of the production department at the Nowy Teatr International Cultural Centre in Warsaw. While working there, I have had the pleasure of producing performances by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Katarzyna Kalwat, Michał Borczuch, Małgorzata Wdowik, Anna Smolar, Marcus Ohrn and Jan Klata, among others.…
May the sun never shine on this day
Dir. Rafał Urbacki, Fredro Theatre in Gniezno, Poland Once upon a time, maybe a century ago, maybe two centuries or three centuries ago, in a certain kingdom far away…. the king of beggars, monarch of the crippled and the handicapped, of convicts and lunatics, ruler of poverty and contempt, pronounced a curse on the city,…
