It advances the art of puppetry by presenting sophisticated programs vital to the cultural life of Chicago. Engaging and inspiring the largest and most diverse audiences for puppetry possible, the Festival is the biggest event dedicated to puppetry in North America and traditionally offers more than 100 activities annually including performances, workshops, artist instensives, free neighborhood events and symposia to audiences up to 14,000 over 11 days each January. On the Main Stage Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival opens January 16th-19 with Anywhere by Theatre de l'Entrouvert & Chicago Puppet Fest.
In all their artistic activity, brothers Wacław and Lesław Janicki never did anything separately. They were always together, both as actors in Tadeusz Kantor's Cricot 2 Theatre and in films, especially as the Kiemlicze brothers in Jerzy Hoffman's “Potop”, as well as in their numerous performance works.
For performances in which virtuosity is combined with a thoughtful attempt to convey personal experience, and matters of the highest rank with a sense of humour and distance. - The winner of the prize awarded by the Polityka weekly.
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.At 24 of January the performance will be played with English surtitles.
Luk Perceval, the director of 3STRS and Once Upon a Long Day, returns to the Stary Theatre in Kraków with his adaptation of Les Rougon Macquart, a monumental cycle of novels by Émile Zola, one of the best-known French writers. Over the course of 20 novels, the author described the fates of the fictional Rougon Macquart family, whose members include businessmen, saleswomen, revolutionaries, sex workers, miners and doctors. Each member of the family faces the legacies passed down by previous generations: poverty, alcoholism, madness, ambition, artistic talent. Yet at the same time, they are also influenced by the reality in which they find themselves. Zola’s novels depict profound social and economic transformations of the 19th century, offering touching stories of greed, desire, the pursuit of happiness and a better life. Premiere on 18 January.
Łukasz Twarkowski’s performance is being shown shown all around the Europe. The Employees, as well as many of his previous works, opposes the traditional understanding of theatricality; it makes the audience a part of his dystopian world, and not merely its passive observers. From 16 till 19 of January at London's Southbank Centre.
The Metropolitan Opera in New York replaced the legendary staging of “Aida” by Sonja Frisell, which had been performed continuously since 1988. The opening night cast featured Polish tenor Piotr Beczała, accompanied on stage by Los Angeles-born soprano Angel Blue in the role of Aida and Romanian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi as Amneris.The performance will be played on January at MET . On 25 January the performance will be broadcast in selected cinemas in Poland.
The idea of performance arose from the state of protesting against violence, resisting prolonged stress, fear and overcoming feelings of guilt in which Belarusians live nowadays consciously or not. It’s a kind of invitation to conceive being detained in Belarus, to go physically through the lawlessness, illegality and outrage which tens of thousands of civilians went through - violence that continues to this day.The performance by Igor Shugaleev will be shown at16 and 17 January.
In December, Teal House invites you to a premiere in Polish, a conference on AI in the arts and a performance in Ukrainian. The Ukrainian version of Mahamaya Electronic Devices, a performance that goes to the heart of our times and invites us to reflect on the complexities of life, identity and love.
Teatr Muzyczny Capitol
Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej
Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury Nowy Teatr
Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej
Krakowski Teatr Variete
The Ember is seven days of intensive physical and vocal training. The work comprises practices from Kokyu Studio training. Their goal is to explore the actor/performer’s within-a-group action resulting from regular immersion in precise structures.
After over 20 years of work, the actresses of Teatr ZAR reflect on the most significant aspects of theater practice, present in the group’s theatrical language that they have created for two decades.