The performance tells about the dilemmas of Andy - a junior clerk at the Office of Immigration and Naturalization (IND) - resulting from the contradiction between his own beliefs and a sense of duty.

The performance is based on Dr. Mai Hertoghs' doctoral dissertation on the Dutch asylum procedure. Fragments of the doctoral dissertation served as the basis for the story by writer Christine Otten.

Direction/play/foam sculptures: Cat Smits
Text: Christine Otten
Scientist/dramatist: dr Maja Hertogs
Set: Tessa Verbei
Music: Wim Selles
Lighting: Jan Sol
Final direction: Duda Paiva
Voice overs: Tine Joustra, Reinout Bussemaker, Nafiss Nia, Meysam Kisomi, Puck van Dijk Images: Kathrin Hero
Photography: De Schaapjesfabriek
Production manager: Hadassa Smit
Production: Lionel Grauwde
Business Manager: Anouk van Geffen
Publicity: Kim Kortekaas
Video: Thomas Brand

Age restrictions: over 12 years old

Trailer: youtu.be/mhCamx0Aq2M

Vernissage of Julita Kalin's artistic puppets exhibition

„I was born in Grudziądz, but most of my adult life is related to Toruń, where I lived and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Currently, I live in a small, charming village near Toruń.

My dolls are made of natural sheep fleece, formed by dry felting. With the help of a special needle, I bring out the appropriate features and character of the dolls. It is a very creative and time-consuming process, usually taking several hours. The hair is usually mohair, wool or alpaca fleece. When creating clothes, I try to use fabrics that already have a history, and I usually use second-hand materials or materials provided by customers. Following the less waste principle, I am giving these fabrics a new lease of life.

The first doll I ever made was handed over to my daughter Matilda a few years ago and still holds a special place in her heart. Each doll is different: cheerful, feisty, similar to, or completely different from the person it is intended for. Initially, I made dolls mainly for children, but with time they also attracted collectors.

Julove dolls were created out of love for minimalism and longing for the times when the toy was an exclusive and durable object; a friend who took children to the land of their imaginations.
The doll grew up with the child, acquiring additional value, becoming a confidant, witness, amulet or souvenir.

I am motivated by the feeling that I create giving joy to both children for whom my dolls are a playmate and later a memento from childhood, and adults for whom aesthetic aspects are important.”

Script (based on the Bible) and direction: Karolina Przystupa
Set design, puppets and costumes: Adrianna Duda
Music: Paulina Zujewska
Vocal preparation and recording of musical instruments: Krzysztof K. Bździel

Cast:
Archangel Gabriel: Aleksandra Błażejczyk
Archangel Raphael: Klaudia Kleina
Archangel Michael: Anna Urbanowicz

Did God see that everything He created was very good?

It would have been if the first woman had not broken the prohibition: tempted by the serpent, she reached for the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thus bringing on all mankind, especially women, a series of punishments and misfortunes.

The three Archangels: Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are trying to change the course of events and give biblical Eve a chance to change her mind by presenting her stories of women from the Bible, generations after her.

A performance for viewers aged 16+

Pedagogical care:
AST prof. Arkadiusz Klucznik
ASP dr Mateusz Mirowski
AM dr hab. Sebastian Ładyżyński

Project financed by the Department of Culture of the City of Wrocław.
The performance was produced as part of the Integration Program of Art Schools in Wrocław.
Wroclaw - the meeting place.

Excerpts from the Book of Genesis, Deuteronomy, Numbers, Judges and Proverbs were used.

A performance for viewers aged 16+

„Plastic Heroes“ is a surprising, funny and fast paced collage of images from war, made entirely of “ready made” children's toys.

Violence, desire, hate and fear are put on the table as the so called 'naive' children toys are brought to life, and the innocence of child's play encounters the bleeding reality of adult war.

Combining a variety of object manipulation techniques, video and acting „Plastic Heroes“ manages to be funny and painful at the same time, and to deal with hard issues while giving the audience a wild and refreshing puppetry experience.

“War is about to begin,
 now is the time to become heroes.

 But the soldiers are plastic,
 the battlefield a table
 and home is just a distant image on a screen.

 In a combat with no clear enemy or goal,
 the border between reality and fantasy blurs:

is this really happening,
or is it all just a game?”

Created and performed by: Ariel Doron
Artistic consultant: Shahar Marom
Co-Directors: Rotem Elroy, David Lockard
Objects manufacture: Chinese People
Video: Anael Resnick, Ariel Doron

* The show was produced with the support of Hanut 31 Theatre

Thanks: Anael Resnick, Daniel Cohen Levi, Yoav Weiman, Anat Arbel, Nufar Sela, Lior Rachmilevitz, Pandora Collective

Trailer: youtu.be/UEVJPCLWByQ

Stop. Cut. Time to change the perspective, don't you think? Stand aside and look at the reality like you have never looked before. "Podmieniec" is a story about being different, which isn't always something easily accepted, even though it is a major part of the world that surrounds us.

According to legends, the titular character is a child of bogins, mamuns, and diwizons. Slavic demons snatching babies right from their cribs, giving their own offsprings in exchange. „You think it's in there?”, „Let's get it!”, „Kill the monster!” - Doesn't it sound familiar?

Podmieniec: Marcin Tomkiel
Music: Jakub Olszewski
Direction: Karol Smaczny
Lyrics: Malika Ledeman
Lighting direction: Maciej Iwańczyk
Puppets: Karol Smaczny, Marcin Tomkiel

Trailer: youtu.be/bLyZIQDTNnk

In the future, robots coexisted with human beings.
The world moved on and the robots did their job helping people, until they began to think for themselves.
The government was not happy with this, and ordered to lock up and destroy all the robots on the planet.
And so the robots were almost extinct. Almost.
One day, Clara, a girl in a wheelchair, goes a long way from her home and arrives at a concentration camp.
There she meets a robot, probably the last robot on planet Earth.
This is how they start a deep friendship based on silence and understaning.
But something terrible happened and they were separated.
70 years later the robot awakens and begins the search for Clara, in a world that has changed, and where intolerance of difference reigns.

Original idea: David Zuazola
Direction: Marek b. Chodaczyński
Music: Marek Żurawski
Adaptation: Marek b. Chodaczyński, David Zuazola
Puppet design: David Zuazola

Trailer: www.facebook.com/Titiriteromaldito/videos/10164405957185075

I am the promise of adventure, an exciting journey into the unknown. You don't know what awaits you. Get away from the gray reality and sail with me to a better place, where it is more pleasant, where you can and feel more. Relax. Don't worry about anything. I will make your innermost dreams come true. What do you want? Relief? Freedom? Forces? I'll give it all to you, just grab me, squeeze me, take me home. Let's lose ourselves together. Cin cin! For love! For us!

Idea and performance: Natalia Sakowicz
Text: Zuzanna Bojda
Puppet: Olga Ryl–Krystianowska
Stage movement: Iza Szostak
Music: Maciej Cempura
Lights: Maciej Iwańczyk
Poster: Bartek Warzecha, Marlena Jabłońska

Running time: 70 min.
Age restrictions: over 13 years old

The performance was created as part of the Young Poland Scholarship of the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sports for Natalia Sakowicz for 2020 and the Artistic Scholarship of the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

Partners of the spectacle:
Theater Academy of A. Zelwerowicz in Warsaw,
Theater Academy of A. Zelwerowicz Branch in Białystok,
Ochota Theater in Warsaw

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=4ztTiSOJ6es

The performance is based on a book "Rutka" by Joanna Fabicka from Łódź. The novel - awarded in 2016 with the literary award of the Polish section of IBBY - in a poetic, surreal and humorous way introduces the child's reader to the image of life in the Łódź ghetto.

The protagonist is a modern girl, ten-year-old Zosia, who lives in Łódź's Bałuty district. The child spends her vacation at home under the care of eccentric aunt Rose and begins to explore the city from a different perspective, thanks to a strange friendship with her new friend, Rutka. The new playmate is a messenger from a world that no longer exists - thanks to her, the protagonist and the spectators will experience an emotional journey into the past.

The story of Zosia's friendship with Rutka encourages empathy and a peer review of her peers from other times like in a mirror. Approaching her experience forces the redefinition of various concepts, such as fear or a sense of loneliness.

Adaptation and direction: Karolina Maciejaszek
Scenography: Marika Wojciechowska
Music: Piotr Klimek
Choreography: Ewelina Ciszewska
The performance is based on the book „Rutka" by Joanna Fabicka
Pedagogical and theatrical activities: Monika Tomczyk
Pedagogical cooperation: Hanna Jastrzębska-Gzella

Cast:
Zosia: Teresa Kowalik
Rutka: Katarzyna Pałka
Rutka's mother, white man, neighbor, Tuptuś, german man, gardener: Wojciech Stagenalski
Musician: Maciej Kuczyński

Trailer: youtu.be/0ChwF9UFoAw

Sail (Zeil) is a solo show of Cat Smits as part of a co-production by PLAY Productions and Duda Paiva Company. A young woman sets off into a wide, blue world full of beauty in a boat, which is her only possession. He struggles with the elements alone. The sea turns out to be a powerful goddess with unexpected characteristics.

The performance tells about running away from oneself and confronting one's own mortality, regret and dreams when this escape is complete.

Play and concept: Cat Smits
Direction: Duda Paiva
Music: Wim Selles
Lighting design: Mark Verhoef
Pop: André Mello, Duda Paiva
Design: Daniel Patijn
Video: Ederson Xavier
Dramaturgy: Pol Eggermont
Costume: Atty Kingma
Production: Rosanne Procee
Photo: Pol Eggermont

"Serenade" was written more than a decade later than "Strip-Tease", which is noticeable in the play itself - the author managed to emigrate and live for some time in France, away from control and repression - the play touches on more common human problems and to a lesser extent (compared to " Strip-Tease") is an absurdist work.

The story of the penetration of the chicken coop Fox, playing the cello Serenade. His appearance forever changes the constant (sometimes to nausea) course of life of the Rooster and the harem of three chickens: Blonde, Brunette and Red...
(It is recommended to read the play before watching)

The project consists of two performances based on one-act plays by S. Mrozek: "Strip-Tease" and "Serenade", each of which has a finished plot and ideological and thematic component. However, in rethinking the authors of the project, the performances are combined with their own view of man, his place in the universe, his own freedom and non-freedom.

The choice of drama "theater of the absurd" is not accidental - modernity, full of information, emotionally and visually, often knocks a person off his feet, confuses and deprives of self-identification, which is replaced by the perception of external circumstances as one's own thought and will. Man, without noticing it, becomes a simulacrum of "God's creation", the ideal of man in the era of humanism. The idea of automatic existence is reflected in the performance of puppet theater - a puppet and is the alter ego of each performer, while the "living" actor - is the bearer of the inner, true, true life of the spirit.

Translation: M. Tarasewicz
Direction: M. Jaremczuk
Scenography: T. Torbienko, I. Hmaruk
Props makers: S. Czehowicz, I. Bondariewa, O. Romanienko, L. Bierieżna
Assistant director: I. Kożewnikowa

Direction, music: Dora Bouzková
Stage design: Magdalena Prousková-Koděrová
Translation: Michał Sieczkowski
Cast: Dora Bouzková

The family of Lupitina, a little Mexican girl, is getting ready to celebrate All Soul’s Day, which in local culture is a colourful and joyful holiday, a meeting of death and life. The living make merry together with the departed, with whom they converse and sing their favourite songs, and for whom they prepare their beloved meals. The magical, extremely sincere, and lively spectacle by Dora Bouzková is addressed to the youngest audience and told in the language of the child. The by no means easy topic of departure is treated with a certain distance and humour, while retaining an awareness of the complex emotions accompanying it and bringing us closer to the very essence of the problem. By taming the theme of death it reminds us that the latter remains a natural part of every life.

Watch on: youtu.be/9lyxZFhdv9o

Katarzyna Pietrzykowska - born 1991 in Warsaw. She studied at the Theater Technique College and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the department of stage design. She created her first doll in 2013 and from that moment it has become her passion. She creates mainly from self-drying masses, but also uses other materials such as felt, fleece, fabrics, polymer masses. Her works are in private collections, incl. in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Since 2018, she has been running cyclical workshops on creating artistic dolls for adults and teenagers at the Sztukarnia Art Center in Warsaw. Participant of the collective exhibition "Mazowsze in skirt" organized by the Museum of Dollhouses, Games and Toys.