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SPOTLIGHT ON POLISH THEATRE
“Waiting for Lucky” and “Quê Ond...
Posted by Martin Blaszk | Nov 29, 2023 | Brazil, Poland, Review
“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson i...
Posted by Emiliia Dementsova | Oct 8, 2023 | Czech Republic, Festivals, Hungary, Poland, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
Polish People Deserve Better From Irish Theatre…
Posted by Kasia Lech | Sep 7, 2023 | Essay, Ireland, Management, Poland, Theatre and Politics
Poland at The Edinburgh Fringe 2023: Lubuski Teatr...
Posted by Duška Radosavljević | Aug 16, 2023 | Edinburgh 2023, Poland, Review, Scotland
ENTRE: A Dispersed Festival of Literature and Thea...
Posted by Martin Blaszk | Feb 10, 2023 | Brazil, Education, Essay, Poland, Transcultural Collaborations
The Brazilian Experience with Different Forms of T...
Posted by Rodolfo García Vázquez | Feb 6, 2023 | Brazil, Covid-19, Essay, Poland, Theatre and Science, Transcultural Collaborations
“The Interrupted Dream” by Hong Kong...
Posted by Rossella Ferrari | Oct 1, 2022 | Adaptation, China, Directing, Festivals, Hong Kong, Poland, Review
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
Season of Doom in Belarus
Plotting Yiddish Drama: A New Digital Resource
Polish Theatre Transfers To Dresden
Virtual Reality In Polish Theatre
Polish Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Confronting The Limits: Konfrontacje Festival 2017
Jacek Głomb Named Polish “Theatre Person 2018”
Poland On Stage: What, Where, When
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.
Polish People Deserve Better From Irish Theatre…
by Kasia Lech | Sep 7, 2023 | Essay, Ireland, Management, Poland, Theatre and Politics
In 2004, Ireland, as one of the first countries in the EU, invited Polish people to live and work...
The Dismantling of Mourning
Beckett 2020
Who Let the “Lady of Pestilence” In?
Inside Virtual Rooms
A Big Small Story
“I Don’t Know What It Means To Be An Actor”: Mamadou Góo Bâ In Conversation With Monika Kwaśniewska
by Monika Kwaśniewska | Sep 4, 2020 | Acting, Interview, Poland, Senegal
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
by Lauren Dubowski | Dec 27, 2017 | Design, Italy, Poland, Review, Theatre and 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
by Rossella Ferrari | Oct 1, 2022 | Adaptation, China, Directing, Festivals, Hong Kong, Poland, Review
Tang Xianzu’s sixteenth-century classic, Peony Pavilion (1598), is a play about boundaries and...
Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Różewicz: Shared Themes and Motifs
by Tomasz Wiśniewski | Feb 9, 2022 | Essay, Playwriting, Poland
INTRODUCTION This article is comparative in approach and introduces the work of two classic...
Polish People Deserve Better From Irish Theatre…
by Kasia Lech | Sep 7, 2023 | Essay, Ireland, Management, Poland, Theatre and Politics
In 2004, Ireland, as one of the first countries in the EU, invited Polish people to live and work...
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The Dismantling of Mourning
by Paweł Schreiber | Apr 9, 2022 | Adaptation, Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
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“Najdziwniejszy Androgyn” (The Strangest Androgyne): Autism in Performance
by Katarzyna Ojrzyńska | Jun 11, 2021 | Between.Pomiędzy 2021, Festivals, Poland, Review, Theatre and Disability
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
by Piotr Dobrowolski | Mar 8, 2021 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Gender
“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”
by KaiChieh Tu | Mar 24, 2018 | Divine Comedy Festival 2017, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
Cezary Goes To War [Cezary Idzie Na Wojnę], an autobiographical piece directed by Cezary...
Between.Pomiędzy Festival: Literary Criticism Now
Between.Pomiędzy: A Festival That Believes in Europe
VR, Theatre and the Importance of Immersion
Newborn: Talk with Wojtek Markowski
Polish Shakespeare Online: Maja Kleczewska’s “Macbeth”
by Konrad Zielinski | May 8, 2020 | Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review
L. P. Hartley’s much-recycled observation that ‘the past is a foreign country’ seems an oddly...
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Polish Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018
by Kasia Lech | Jul 14, 2018 | Festivals, News, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad
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“Unknown, I Live With You”: Oppression and Song
by Agata Araszkiewicz | Oct 11, 2019 | Afghanistan, Belgium, Essay, Poland, Theatre and Opera
Opera is filled with tales of violence. Its whole history relies on great passions tragically...
Notes from the Generation After 4 Showcase
by Franciszek Bryk | Oct 16, 2020 | Festivals, Poland, Theatre and Dance
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.
by Emiliia Dementsova | Oct 8, 2023 | Czech Republic, Festivals, Hungary, Poland, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show...
The ENTRE Festival in Midwest Brazil
Theatre as a Social Institution
Laughing in Darkness: Reading Różewicz Anew
Privileges of the Imagination
Notes from the Generation After 4 Showcase
Beckett 2020
by Urszula Pysyk | Aug 23, 2021 | Adaptation, Poland, Review, Transmedia
Have the worlds of Samuel Beckett’s plays become our reality? The creators of Beckett Planet seem...
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5 Reasons Why Verse Is the Language for Theatre in 2020s
by Kasia Lech | Mar 12, 2021 | Dramaturgy, Ireland, Nigeria, Playwriting, Poland, Spain, Transmedia, United Kingdom
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Inside Virtual Rooms
by Katarzyna Lemańska | Feb 17, 2021 | Poland, Review, Transmedia
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