Category: theater
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…
Can you help me?
8 May ’25 – premiere Malmö Theatre Academy (SE) 13 June ’25 – premiere Scena Robocza, Poznań (PL) After all, we deserve it, don’t we? We’ve earned it with our hard work. The fatigue from waking up to going to sleep. Our dreams were not exorbitant, just to always have something to put in the…
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,…
