Launching in March 2025 and running through November, the UK/Poland Season 2025, initiated by the British Council, features over 100 events across dozens of cities in both countries, celebrating a milestone year in the cultural relationship between Poland and the UK. It opens a new chapter of collaboration, revitalising cultural dialogue and strengthening ties.
The legendary choreographer Akram Khan will present his cult production in Gdańsk. The Gdańsk audience will see for the first time the performance Chotto Desh – the work of one of the most valued contemporary choreographers, Akram Khan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No freedom in madness - written by Linda Wardal, a Swedish choreographer, dancer, teacher and writer. She writes reviews for the Swedish online platform Scenkonstguiden, sha was a participant of the Dance Critics Residency workshop at Cricoteka.
The handbook’s objective is to offer insight into this area for the younger generation of theatre translators. The booklet has just been released in Polish and is available for free. On 15 January at 18:00, a meeting entitled Drama. So what? Theatre Translation will be held at the Theatre Institute as part of the “Books at the Theatre” series dedicated to translating for the theatre. At the meeting, Krystyna Mogilnicka, the editor of the Polish-language edition of the “Theatre Translation Handbook”, will present the publication and discuss the topic of theatre translation with experts in the field, i.e. Tadeusz Nyczek, Piotr Olkusz, Małgorzata Semil, and Elżbieta Zimna. Free admission. For more information about the event, see here.
Four women and four intriguing love stories. Juan Diego Flórez leads a fantastic cast in Offenbach's dream opera. As part of the Royal Opera House Cinema Season 2024-25, the British Council and Multikino invite you to see the royal ballet The Tales of Hoffmann. The opera will be presented in Multikino cinemas nationwide on 19 th of January.
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.