Programme of the 31st Festival (2025)
Programme of the 31st Festival (2025)
15 March (Sat), 7.15 p.m., Witold Gombrowicz, „Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy”, directed by Adam Orzechowski, produced by Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź
16 March (Sun), 7.15 p.m., Witold Gombrowicz, „Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy”, directed by Adam Orzechowski, produced by Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź
21 March (Fri), 7:15 p.m., Eliza Kącka, „Yesterday You Were Angry In Green”, directed by Anna Augustynowicz, produced by The Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Small Stage
22 March (Sat), 7:15 p.m., Eliza Kącka, „Yesterday You Were Angry In Green”, directed by Anna Augustynowicz, produced by The Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Small Stage
26 March (Wed), 7 p.m., „Flying Spaghetti Monster”, written and directed by Mateusz Pakuła, produced by Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Cracow, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Big Stage
27 March (Thu), 7 p.m., „Flying Spaghetti Monster”, written and directed by Mateusz Pakuła, produced by Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Cracow, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Big Stage
29 March (Sat), 7 p.m., Hubert Sulima, „Persona. Bożena’s Body”, directed by Jędrzej Piaskowski, produced by Zagłębie Theatre in Sosnowiec, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Big Stage
30 March (Sun), 7 p.m., Hubert Sulima, „Persona. Bożena’s Body”, directed by Jędrzej Piaskowski, produced by Zagłębie Theatre in Sosnowiec, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Big Stage
7 April (Mon), 7 p.m., Agnieszka Szpila, „Heksy”, directed by Monika Pęcikiewicz, produced by Polski Theatre in Podziemie in Wrocław, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Big Stage
8 April (Tue), 7 p.m., Agnieszka Szpila, „Heksy”, directed by Monika Pęcikiewicz, produced by Polski Theatre in Podziemie in Wrocław, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Big Stage
11 April (Fri), 7 p.m., Piotr Rowicki, „The Rescued”, directed by Maja Kleczewska, produced by Dom Spotkań z Historią in Warsaw, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Big Stage
12 April (Sat), 7 p.m., Piotr Rowicki, „The Rescued”, directed by Maja Kleczewska, produced by Dom Spotkań z Historią in Warsaw, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź. Big Stage
12 April (Sat), 7:15 p.m., Wojciech Grudziński, „Threesome/Trzy”, written and performed by Wojciech Grudziński, produced by Wojciech Grudziński/Fundacja 910113, co-produced by Nowy Theatre and Belluard Bollwerk, in co-operation with Cité Internationale des Arts, Frascati, Visegrad Artist Residency Program for Performing Arts, Centre national de la danse – Pantin and the City of Warsaw, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Small Stage
13 April (Sun), 6 p.m., Master Presentation, William Shakespeare, „Hamlet”, directed by Jan Englert, produced by Narodowy Theatre in Warsaw. The spectacle will be shown in Narodowy Theatre in Warsaw. The ticket price covers the bus trip from Łódź to Narodowy Theatre in Warsaw and back to Łódź. The trip to Warsaw: buses leave at 3 p.m. on 13 April, 2025, from the Manufaktura parking lot (The Jan Karski Street)
13 April (Sun), 7:15 p.m., Wojciech Grudziński, „Threesome/Trzy”, written and performed by Wojciech Grudziński, produced by Wojciech Grudziński/Fundacja 910113, co-produced by Nowy Theatre and Belluard Bollwerk, in co-operation with Cité Internationale des Arts, Frascati, Visegrad Artist Residency Program for Performing Arts, Centre national de la danse – Pantin and the City of Warsaw, presented in Powszechny Theatre in Łódź, Small Stage
31 May (Sat), 4 p.m., Master Presentation, Stanisław Wyspiański, „Liberation”, directed by Jan Klata, produced by Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk. The spectacle will be shown in Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk. The ticket price covers the bus trip from Łódź to Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk and back to Łódź. The trip to Gdańsk: buses leave at 10 a.m. on 31 May, 2025, from the Manufaktura parking lot (The Jan Karski Street)
21 June (Sat), Master Presentation, Władysław Reymont, „The Promised Land”, directed by Maja Kleczewska, produced by Zagłębie Theatre in Sosnowiec. Time and place of the presentation to be announced later
22 June (Sun), 1 p.m., panel discussion, „Community?”, Small Stage, Powszechny Theatre in Łódź
21 June (Sat), Master Presentation, Władysław Reymont, „The Promised Land”, directed by Maja Kleczewska, produced by Zagłębie Theatre in Sosnowiec. Time and place of the presentation to be announced later
This year Poster Masters Gallery of International Festival of Plays Pleasant And Unpleasant has enriched again. It consists now, among others, of works by Waldemar Świerzy, Rafał Olbiński, Andrzej Pągowski, Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz, Michał Batory and Stanisław Fijałkowski. This year the poster for the 31st Festival was designed by Józef Robakowski.
Józef Robakowski is one of the most important modern Polish artists and theoreticians. He is an artist, art historian, author of films, photo and video series, drawings, installations, objects, conceptual projects and initiator of many important events and multimedia artistic actions, a professor of Łódź Film School.
During his studies he was the founder of several artistic groups – Oko, STKF Pętla, Zero-61. In the 70-ties he co-organized Forma Filmowa workshop – its members (to mention here Wojciech Bruszewski, Paweł Kwiek, Antoni Mikołajczyk, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Ryszard Waśko) were interested in analyzing the language of photography and film with elimination of any story and plot. In 1974 he produced his first video films in which he rejected narrative in favour of media analysis in order to achieve higher possible objectivity of his works; the results were assembly films in which the artist limited his part to be only the initiator and coordinator and the film was produced by an invited person.
Józef Robakowski’s works have been presented in various institutions not only in Poland but all over the world – at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, museums and galleries in Canada, Germany, Holland, Austria, Hungary, Great Britain and the United States.
