International Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant

Programme of the 30th International Festival of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
9 March – 16 April 2024



9 March (Saturday) at 7 p.m.
Opening of the retrospective exhibition „30 Years of International Festival of Plays Pleasant And Unpleasant”
Foyer, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



9 March (Saturday) at 7 p.m.
„Mothers. A Song for Wartime”, directed by Marta Górnicka, co-production of The Chorus of Women, the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin the Avignon Festival d’Avignon; Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne; Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw; SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht); Tangente St. Pölten – Festival Für Gegenwartskultur (Austria)
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



10 March (Sunday), at 7:15 p.m.
„Little Fifteen”
Directed by Tomasz Man
Produced by The Witkacy Nowy Teatr in Słupsk
Small Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



11 March (Monday), at 7:15 p.m.
„Little Fifteen”
Directed by Tomasz Man
Produced by The Witkacy Nowy Teatr in Słupsk
Small Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



16 March (Saturday), at 5 p.m.
Maja Komorowska’s Master Performance
Samuel Beckett „Happy Days”
Directed by Antoni Libera
Produced by The Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw
Presented in The Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw
The ticket price covers the bus trip from Łódź do Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw and back to Łódź. The trip to Warsaw: buses leave at 1.30 p.m. on 16 March, 2024, from the Manufaktura parking lot (The Jan Karski Street)



18 March (Monday), at 7 p.m.
„How I Didn’t Kill My Father And How Much I Regret It”
Adapted and directed by Mateusz Pakuła
Co-production of Teatr Łaźnia Nowa in Cracow and The Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



19 March (Tuesday), at 7 p.m.
„How I Didn’t Kill My Father And How Much I Regret It”
Adapted and directed by Mateusz Pakuła
Co-production of Teatr Łaźnia Nowa in Cracow and The Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



20 March (Wednesday), at 7:15 p.m.
Julia Holewińska, „Last Days of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu”
Directed by Wojciech Faruga
Produced by Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz
Small Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



21 March (Thursday), at 7:15 p.m.
Julia Holewińska, „Last Days of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu”
Directed by Wojciech Faruga
Produced by Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz
Small Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



6 April (Saturday), at 6 p.m.
„Once Upon a Long Day”
Directed by Luk Perceval
Produced by The Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theatre in Cracow
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



7 April (Sunday), at 6 p.m.
„Once Upon a Long Day”
Directed by Luk Perceval
Produced by The Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theatre in Cracow
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



10 April (Wednesday), at 7 p.m.
„The Melodrama”
Directed by Anna Smolar
Produced by The Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



11 April (Thursday), at 7 p.m.
„The Melodrama”
Directed by Anna Smolar
Produced by The Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



13 April (Saturday), at 4 p.m.
Master Performance
„Elizabeth Costello. Seven Lectures and Five Moral Tales”
Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
Produced by Nowy Teatr w Warszawie
Presented in Nowy Teatr w Warszawie
The spectacle will be shown in Nowy Theatre in Warsaw. The ticket price covers the bus trip from Łódź do Nowy Theatre in Warsaw and back to Łódź. The trip to Warsaw: buses leave at 12.30 p.m. on 13 April, 2024, from the Manufaktura parking lot (The Jan Karski Street)



14 April (Sunday), at 6 p.m.
Plato, „Republic (Der Staat)”
Directed by Jan Klata
Co-production of The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Cracow and Nationaltheater Mannheim
Big Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



18 April (Thursday), at 7:15 p.m.
„Fredro. The Jubilee Year”
Directed by Jan Englert
Produced by National Theatre in Warsaw
Small Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź



19 April (Friday), at 7:15 p.m.
„Fredro. The Jubilee Year”
Directed by Jan Englert
Produced by National Theatre in Warsaw
Small Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź