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SPOTLIGHT ON POLISH THEATRE
The Spotlight on Poland showcases new developments in Polish theatre both at home and abroad. From performance reviews and interviews, to an ever-growing archive of essays, the series offers The Theatre Times' readers a window on the Polish theatre landscape.
EDITORIALS
The Spotlight on Poland: Diverse Voices and Perspectives on Contemporary Polish Theatre - Kasia Lech, Regional Managing Editor for Poland
The Context of Contemporary Polish Theatre: Spotlight on Poland - Magda Romanska, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief
Grzegorz Jarzyna – the head and artistic director of TR Warszawa (Poland) discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work, TR Warszawa, and the theatre community in Poland. He also reflects on what may the future of theatre look like.
“Between.Europe: Theatre In Romania.” Conversations And Visual Theatrical Exchanges Between Romania And Poland
Somewhat on the fringes of the Poland-Romania Cultural Season, the 2025 Between.Pomiędzy Festival...
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“I Don’t Know What It Means To Be An Actor”: Mamadou Góo Bâ In Conversation With Monika Kwaśniewska
Monika Kwaśniewska: What is your educational background in the arts? Did you graduate from drama...
From “Tarantella” To Theatre Design: Prampolini And Polish Futurism At The Łódź Museum Of Art
Three gramophones affixed to angular wooden boxes stood tall, almost animal-like, on wiry metal...
“The Interrupted Dream” by Hong Kong’s Zuni Icosahedron in Wrocław, Poland
Tang Xianzu’s sixteenth-century classic, Peony Pavilion (1598), is a play about boundaries and...
Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Różewicz: Shared Themes and Motifs
INTRODUCTION This article is comparative in approach and introduces the work of two classic...
Make Your Classroom Multilingual: On Training Students For Rapidly Changing Cultural Landscapes
How do we train students to work within rapidly changing landscapes and for a theatre of the...
“Najdziwniejszy Androgyn” (The Strangest Androgyne): Autism in Performance
A short documentary opening the series entitled Spradyczni artyści (Sporadic Artists, dir....
Feedback Loop: “No One’s Gonna Believe Me Anyway” at the Gniezno Theatre
“No one’s gonna believe me anyway,” says Barbara repeatedly. She knows there is no point in...
Divine Comedy Festival 2017 Review: “Cezary Goes To War”
Cezary Goes To War [Cezary Idzie Na Wojnę], an autobiographical piece directed by Cezary...
Polish Shakespeare Online: Maja Kleczewska’s “Macbeth”
L. P. Hartley’s much-recycled observation that ‘the past is a foreign country’ seems an oddly...
“Unknown, I Live With You”: Oppression and Song
Opera is filled with tales of violence. Its whole history relies on great passions tragically...
Notes from the Generation After 4 Showcase
Mid-September brought us a week of new, Polish theatre productions, and a sneak peek behind the...
“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show...
Beckett 2020
Have the worlds of Samuel Beckett’s plays become our reality? The creators of Beckett Planet seem...
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LATEST FROM POLAND
- “Between.Europe: Theatre In Romania.” Conversations And Visual Theatrical Exchanges Between Romania And Poland
- The “Screen / Stage” Programme At The Between.Pomiędzy Festival 2025
- Sharing Crafts, Or Laboratory Space
- The Filmed Performance “Woodland Bird Woman” – a Collaboration Between Esther Salamon, Robert Laycock And David Stephenson: Between.Pomiędzy Dispersed Festival 2025
- Violence and Therapy: 29th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, Poland, 2025
- Flightless, Caged “Angels In America”
- The TikTok-isation Of Theatre? – “Dziewczyna, Która Podeptała Chleb”
- 29th International Shakespeare Festival runs in Gdańsk (Poland) from 25 July to 3 August
- Polish-American Migrant Theatre: Teatr NASZ From Chicago On Tour In Florida
- Peter J. Chelkowski: A Life of Scholarship And Cultural Exchange
- “Border” And “Sheol/שאול” – Wachowicz/Fret Studio At Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024
- On The Other Side Of The Conundrum – A New Drama Inspired By “Picnic At Hanging Rock” In The National Theater Of Warsaw Poland [Part III]
- On The Other Side Of The Conundrum – A New Drama Inspired By “Picnic At Hanging Rock” In The National Theater Of Warsaw Poland [Part II]
- On The Other Side Of The Conundrum – A New Drama Inspired By “Picnic At Hanging Rock” In The National Theater Of Warsaw Poland [Part I]
- It Takes Artistry to Make Theatre for Young Audiences: New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024
- “Dziwna Wiosna”: About Cruelty Without Brutality or a War Story for the Young Children
- Performance That Every Man Should See, And No Child Should
- “Ja Goryl, Ty Człowiek:” Understanding Koko
- “PÚPÄTKO” from the Slovak Ján Palárik Theatre
- “Drapando:” Scratching For A Connection
