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Theatre Polish Dance at Klopsztanga
World, 22.05.2012 - 20.07.2012The festival opens with a showing of the Minus 2 performance, choreographed and directed by Ohad...
Theatre Słobodzianek's Our Class Across the Globe
Tokyo, 18.05.2012 - 04.06.2012Rehearsals for the Japanese production of Our Class are underway in Tokyo’s Bungaku-za theatre. The...
Music The Chorus of Women Tours Germany
Dresden, 12.05.2012 - 08.06.2012Marta Górnicka’s chorus of 25 women sings, shouts and whispers to create a new voice for the female...
Theatre Warlikowski and Jarzyna Named Poland's Superbrands
Poland/Warszawa, 25.05.2012The daring Polish directors were honoured for their role in actively promoting Polish cultural abroad at the gala ceremony at the sixth edition of the Superbrands Poland Awards, an...
Theatre Poland's Puppeteers in Asia
26.05.2012 - 04.06.2012Based on the stories of Heinrich Hoffmann, Teatr Figur's "Crime and Punishment" employs the unique technique of tintaramese in a surreal vision of children’s telling adventures
Visual arts Focus Polska Goes to Romania
Sibiu, 25.05.2012 - 02.06.2012Theatre ensembles from three major Polish cities are in the spotlight of Romania’s largest annual festival of performing arts. This years’ edition of the event runs under the...
Visual arts Remembering Beuys and Kantor in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, 22.05.2012 - 27.10.2012The various works by Tadeusz Kantor are on display alongside the oeuvre of Joseph Beuys as the show attempts to trace the lines of the artists’ parallel lives and juxtapose...
Theatre Ghostly Images of Muranooo at Warsaw's Dramatyczny Theatre
Warszawa, 12.05.2012 - 15.05.2012Israeli director Lilach Dekel-Avneri takes an uncanny look at Sylwia Chutnik’s play to unearth the living remains of a traumatic history, mingling horror and tragedy with farce.
Film Corso Polonia Takes Polish Art to Italy
Rome, 10.05.2012 - 07.06.2012This year’s tenth edition of the annual Corso Polonia Festival celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Polish Institute in Rome with a wide variety of events in various genres. The...
Theatre Maja Kleczewska Presents a Bloody Macbeth at London's Globe to Globe
World/London, 08.05.2012 - 10.05.2012The daring Polish director leads Opole's Kochanowski Theatre in a performance of a unique take on Shakespeare's play at one of the world's biggest events in honour of the British...
Theatre Poland on Stage at Klopsztanga 2012
World/Germany, 04.05.2012 - 03.06.2012Performances of Fasada 1/2 and the Caution Hot! series bring on new perspectives on Polish-German relations through theatre and movement.
Theatre Miłka: Krzysztof Grabowski's One-man Show Heads to Moldavia
Kishiniev, 04.05.2012 - 08.05.2012The young actor of Elbląg’s Aleksander Sewruk Theatre presents Miłka, his solo performance based on The Sandbox by Michał Walczak. The show is on the programme as part of...
Theatre Legendary Polish Puppeteers in South Korea
01.05.2012 - 08.05.2012The Białystok Puppet Theatre presents their performance entitled Chopin – an Impression as part of the 2012 World Marionettes Festival in Chilgok. The BTL gives six showings of the...
Theatre Young Polish Theatre - Michał Walczak’s Amazonia Premieres in Minsk
Minsk, 27.04.2012 - 13.05.2012An international team presents a play about the clash between dreams and reality. Amazonia’s main characters are two graduates of the Theatre Academy who confront their youthful...
Theatre The New York Times Celebrates Jarzyna's Festen
New York, 24.04.2012Chief NYT Theatre Critic Ben Brantley calls Jarzyna's staging a "dysfunctional-family drama as big-canvas Grand Guignol, an approach that has its cathartic value".
Literature Nostra Classe: Tadeusz Słobodzianek's Drama on Stage in Madrid
Madrid, 19.04.2012 - 13.05.2012Carme Portaceli, an acclaimed Spanish theatre director stages Nostra Classe in Madrid's Teatro Fernán Gómez. Our Class, Nasza Klasa in the original, the only play to win Poland's...
Theatre TR Warszawa's Festen at St. Anne's Warehouse in New York
New York, 20.04.2012 - 29.04.2012"As in Jarzyna’s Macbeth before it, Festen’s banquet is the setting for ghosts of the past to make themselves known and reveal secrets at a family gathering.", Susan Feldman, the...
Film Polish Acting Legend Jerzy Stuhr Turns 65
18.04.2012Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr celebrates his 65th birthday with the promise that he'll return to the stage in the coming months in spite of a year-long break resulting from a recent...
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Film Klopsztanga 2012 - Polish Cultural Programme in North Rhine-Westphalia
A unique new project dedicated to promoting Polish culture across Germany's North Rhine-Westphlia ...
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Film Zygmunt Hübner
Director, actor for theatre and film, educator, general director of theatres and publicist. He was...
Theatre 2011 in Polish Theatre - Year in Review
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Film Henryk Bista
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