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Teatr Powszechny im. Zygmunta Hübnera, Warszawa · Duża Scena · after Leopold Tyrmand · theatre
Leopold Tyrmand’s Warsaw novel on the Duża Scena of Teatr Powszechny: four hours and forty minutes through gates, markets and projections, in a city that keeps generating itself. Dream Adoption Society built its digital layer: a scanned Warsaw, avatars of the company and live city data meeting the actors on stage.
Direction / script: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy / text: Rébecca Pierrot. Set design: Julia Zawadzka, Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Costumes: Sławek Blaszewski, Dominika Piekutowska-Swed. Multimedia: Radomir Majewski, Natalia Ślusarska, Zuzanna Gocławska. Music: Qba Janicki. Lighting: Zuzanna Gocławska, Piotr Pieczyński, Natalia Ślusarska. Movement: Julia Latosińska. Assistant director: Dominik Gorbaczyński. Stage manager: Sandra Milošević. Cast: Karolina Adamczyk, Mamadou Góo Bâ, Klara Bielawka, Aleksandra Bożek, Paweł Charyton, Michał Czachor, Anna Ilczuk, Andrzej Kłak, Tomasz Kocuj, Julia Latosińska, Mateusz Łasowski, Artem Manuilov, Maria Robaszkiewicz, Karina Seweryn, Oskar Stoczyński, Barbara Wysocka; guests: Zofia Stafiej, Andrzej Szeremeta; Rébecca Pierrot (16–18 October 2026, for Barbara Wysocka). Premiere: 16 October 2026, Duża Scena · 4 h 40 min with two intervals. Production: Teatr Powszechny im. Zygmunta Hübnera, Warszawa · production page.
63 photos (Performance · Teatr Powszechny; Digital layer · scans, avatars, flyover) in the full archive.
Lublin · Belgrade · Montpellier · New York · DPN / VR / AI · theatre, VR / online
LUMO: The Tower of Babel is the first part of an international theatre project inspired by Ludwik Zamenhof and his dream of a language that could join people across borders. Krzysztof Garbaczewski, with an artistic team and partners from Ukraine, Serbia, Greece, France and the United States, builds a hybrid performance in which theatre meets digital technologies: AR, 3D worlds, live music and a network performer.
The performance is played at the same time by actors in Lublin, Belgrade, Montpellier and New York on one shared virtual stage. The actors wear headsets in their own cities; their bodies, hands and faces meet inside a digital theatre built around a tower of Babel. Two AI sisters, Perła and Heban, listen, answer in six languages (Polish, Ukrainian, Serbian, Greek, French and English), move, touch and sing. Nothing is scripted line by line: each evening is improvised from what the house remembers of the previous ones.
The theme is the one the tower asks for: Zamenhof, Esperanto and machine translation as a prosthesis of understanding, performed by the very apparatus it talks about. The premiere took place on 4 and 5 September 2026 at Lubelskie Zakłady Tytoniowe in Lublin, within the programme Perceptions: New Forms of Art, with simultaneous stages at FMK in Belgrade and La Tendresse in Montpellier, and a live stream with English captions at dreamadoptionsociety.com/live.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy / text: Rébecca Pierrot. AI performers: Perła and Heban. Performed by: An international ensemble of actors in Lublin, Belgrade, Montpellier and New York. Stages: Lubelskie Zakłady Tytoniowe, Lublin · FMK, Belgrade · La Tendresse, coopérative culturelle, Montpellier · New York · online at dreamadoptionsociety.com/live. Programme: Perceptions: New Forms of Art · Crossroads Center. Premiere: 4 and 5 September 2026, 19:00.
24 photos (Lublin · Lubelskie Zakłady Tytoniowe; Montpellier · La Tendresse; Posters · Lublin / Belgrade / Montpellier) in the full archive.
Teatr im. St. I. Witkiewicza, Zakopane · Witkacy Atelier – Malarnia · staged as Nowe światy (Morfina, Peyotl, Eter) · theatre, VR / online
The next iteration of the LUMO world. Three chapters of Witkacy's Narkotyki – Peyotl, Ether, Morphine – become an immersive mixed-reality installation: spectators share one room, physical objects merge with digital images, gestures leave traces and the world slowly stops answering, testing what keeps a sense of reality stable.
After: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Narkotyki. Created by: Krzysztof Garbaczewski (solo work: concept, direction, VR world).
Video: LUMO: Substancja, promo (3 min). Production page. 10 photos (Through the headsets · performance, 26.09.2026; The LUMO world · Unreal) in the full archive.
Opera Rara Kraków / Capella Cracoviensis · ICE Kraków · opera
Handel's most experimental opera returns as a film-staging between French tragedy and Italian opera seria. Medea, desire, disappearance and baroque theatrical machinery become a long system of voices, images and silence.
Film-staging: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Rébecca Pierrot. Light: Gwidon Wydrzyński. Conductor: Alessandro Moccia. Ensemble: Capella Cracoviensis. Cast: Carlotta Colombo, David Hansen, Teresa Marut, Anna Koehler, Matylda Staśto-Kotuła, Kacper Szelążek, Marek Opaska.
Teatr Lalek Guliwer, Warszawa · Scena Duża · theatre, VR / online
Swift's journeys become puppet theatre and VR. Strangeness, scale and tolerance are treated as live tools for asking how a body finds orientation in worlds it does not yet understand.
Direction / script: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Rebecca Pierrot. Set design / puppets: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Choreography: Wojciech Marek Kozak. Music: Qba Janicki. Light: Robert Mleczko. Costumes: Sławek Blaszewski. Multimedia / VR: Radomir Majewski. Cast: Honorata Królikiewicz, Elżbieta Pejko, Izabela Zachowicz, Jakub Franciszek Kowalczyk, Tomasz Kowol, Krzysztof Kozak, Jacek Poniński, Adam Wnuczko.
Video: Podróże Guliwera trailer. Production page.
Colombia · DPN · theatre, VR / online
A Colombian scenic-technological process in a dome environment, where memory, community and landscape pass through live bodies, avatars and projection.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Rébecca Pierrot. Co-direction: Paulina Oña. ÁGORA Collective: Diego Vargas, Marcela Angulo, Juanita Cañon, Mónica Pulido, Katherine Cortés, Laura M. Restrepo, Carlos Rojas.
12 photos in the full archive.
Teatr Dramatyczny im. Jerzego Szaniawskiego w Wałbrzychu · Duża Scena · theatre
Abbott's two-dimensional satire becomes a geometric survival manual for imagination, hierarchy and the terror of flat thinking. A. Square lives inside an ordered world where every deviation becomes political.
Text: Edwin A. Abbott, Rebecca Pierrot, Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Adaptation: Rebecca Pierrot, Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Direction / set / video / music: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Costumes: Sławomir Blaszewski. Light: Robert Mleczko. Interactive visuals: Radomir Majewski. Cast: Grzegorz Artman, Rafał Gorczyca, Urszula Gryczewska, Wojciech Marek Kozak, Piotr Mokrzycki, Ireneusz Mosio, Małgorzata Osiej, Dominika Zdzienicka.
Video: Flatlandia recording. Production page. 18 photos (Photos · Tobiasz Papuczys) in the full archive.
Cricoteka, Kraków · Exhibition (Nie)Umarła klasa / The (Un)Dead Class · lab / event
A multimedia and AI layer for The (Un)Dead Class, Cricoteka's exhibition marking fifty years of Tadeusz Kantor's The Dead Class. Black snow falls on the children in their school desks, and photographs of the performance from the Cricoteka collection return as AI-animated projections, between archive and afterimage.
Multimedia / AI projections: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Exhibition: Cricoteka, Kraków, 26.02–21.12.2025.
10 photos (Stills from the projections and AI films) in the full archive.
La MaMa / CultureHub / Digital Performance Network · New York, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Greece · theatre, VR / online
The second part of the DPN work after Olga Tokarczuk, focused on the middle of the novel. It synchronized stages, avatars, subtitles and performers across several countries.
Concept / direction / VR design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Script: Rébecca Pierrot. Performers: Rébecca Pierrot, Tomasz Rodowicz. Live VR music: Jan Duszyński. Avatar creation: Marcin Kosakowski. Set design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Robert Mleczko. Camera / light: Robert Mleczko. Costumes: Monika Beilstein, Małgorzata Karpiuk, Sławomir Blaszewski. Presented by: La MaMa in partnership with CultureHub and Polish Cultural Institute New York. Poland: CRICOTEKA / Divine Comedy Festival; Kamil Białaszek, Natalia Szczypka, Paweł Smagała, Oliver Woodcock, Maciej Gniady, Andrzej Serafin. Serbia: Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade; Jacques Laroche, Teodora Miodragović, Ana Marija Petrović, Matija Milošević, Djordje Petković, Aleksa Borković, Ana Knežević, Predrag Terzić, Maja Stanković. Ukraine / Greece / Kazakhstan: NASHi Experimental Theatre Club, MOZ Productions, bULt; Romana Isabella Soutus, Yuliia Linnik, Artur Slisarenko, Chrysanthi Badeka, Kostadis Mizaras, Acell Shaldibayeva, Arys Ässem. Photos: Adam Walanus (Kraków), Djordje Petković (Belgrade).
Production page. 54 photos (New York · La MaMa; Belgrade · FMK; Kraków · Cricoteka) in the full archive.
Fabryka Sztuki w Łodzi / Teatr CHOREA / Far East University · Łódź / Seoul / online · theatre, VR / online
A hybrid theatre project after Plato's Republic in Alain Badiou's interpretation. Performers in Łódź and Seoul meet in a shared virtual environment to test power, technology and public conversation in the digital era.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Korean artistic care: Kyoung Hee An. Script / dramaturgy: Rebecca Pierrot. Music: Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Paweł Smagała. Costumes / set design: Martyna Konieczny. VR: Maciej Gniady, Radomir Majewski. Avatars: Marcin Kosakowski. VR care: Jacek Nagłowski. Cast: Joanna Chmielecka, Małgorzata Lipczyńska, Tomasz Rodowicz, Paweł Smagała, Inhyun Song, Seongmin Cho Young, Jaehyeong Im, Najin Kim, Daeyong Kim. Partners: Teatr CHOREA, Łódź Film School, Far East University.
Production page. 17 photos in the full archive.
Teatr im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie / DPN · Kraków / NYC / Manizales / Ivano-Frankivsk · theatre, VR / online
Is AI afraid of humanity, or is humanity afraid of AI? Witkacy's lost final drama returns through artificial intelligence, VR and remote performers. Reality, illusion and code collide inside one networked theatre machine.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Screenplay / dramaturgy: Rebecca Pierrot. Costumes: Martyna Konieczny. VR world: Radomir Majewski, Maciej Gniady. Music: Qba Janicki. Avatars: Marcin Kosakowski. Polish version cast: Agnieszka Judycka-Cappuccino, Antoni Milancej, Björn Lengers, Vladyslav Hrodzitskyi, Volodymyr Mostovyi. English DPN version: Mattie Barber-Bockelman and Billy Clark at CultureHub NYC; Rebecca Pierrot and Krzysztof Garbaczewski in Manizales, Colombia. English version co-production: Asher Remy-Toledo, Hyphen Hub. Co-producers: Hyphen Hub, Teatr im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie, Teatr w Iwano-Frankiwsku, CultureHub.org.
Video: So-Called Humanity in Madness recording. Production page. 27 photos in the full archive.
Opera Rara Kraków · Teatr Łaźnia Nowa · opera
A baroque diptych in which Carissimi's biblical vow and sacrifice are placed against the present tense of war, voice, body and public ritual.
Staging: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Rébecca Pierrot. Costumes: Martyna Konieczny. Multimedia: Radomir Majewski. Light: Robert Mleczko. Choreography: Chrysanthi Badeka. Musical direction / theorbo: Andreas Arend. Cast / musicians: Kostadis Mizaras, Paweł Smagała, Zbigniew Malak, Solomiia Pavlenko, Magdalena Łukawska, Antonina Ruda, Piotr Szewczyk, Matylda Staśto, Jarosław Kitala, Szymon Strzelczyk, Seojin Kim, Monika Hartmann.
Video: Jephte trailer. Production page.
CultureHub / La MaMa, New York · Digital Performance Network · theatre, VR / online
The first part of a two-part DPN work after Olga Tokarczuk. The 2023 research at CultureHub and La MaMa in New York opened the VR archive of the novel; the second part followed in 2024.
Concept / direction / VR design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Creative team: Danusia Trevino, Anna Podolak, Ola Rudnicka, Rébecca Pierrot, Monika Palikot, Sławomir Blaszewski, Jan Duszyński, Anastasiia Vorobiova, Bettina Katja Lange, Piotr Gawełko. Photos: Lívia Sá / courtesy of CultureHub.
Production page. 3 photos (New York · CultureHub) in the full archive.
Teatr im. Juliusza Osterwy w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim / DPN · Gorzów / Greece / Georgia / Ukraine · theatre, VR / online
What are we willing to sacrifice for utopian happiness? After Huxley, the performance asks how comfort can become voluntary servitude, how power may shape society without open violence, and how AI changes our relation to language, reality and virtuality.
Scenario / direction / level design / programming: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Rébecca Pierrot. Costumes: Martyna Konieczny. Music: Qba Janicki. Scenography / light / video: Robert Mleczko. Avatars / 3D: Marcin Kosakowski, Radomir Majewski. Polish cast: Bartosz Bandura, Magdalena Dwurzyńska, Dominik Jakubczak, Kacper Kubryński, Mikołaj Kwiatkowski, Magdalena Kasperowicz, Marta Karmowska, Edyta Milczarek, Artur Nełkowski, Oliwer Witek. Remote teams: Lithografeion Theatre / University of Peloponnese / MOZ Productions / HCI-VR Lab; Royal District Theatre in Tbilisi; Regional Academic Theater in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Video: Brave New World recording. Production page. 19 photos in the full archive.
Teatr Śląski im. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Katowicach · Katowice · theatre
Zola's mining world becomes a resonant chamber for suffering, revolt, class violence and contemporary protest. The mine is not a historical backdrop but a capsule in which exploitation keeps returning.
Adaptation / direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Rébecca Pierrot. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Costumes: Sławek Blaszewski. Video / light: Robert Mleczko. Music: Qba Janicki. Cast: Katarzyna Brzoska, Andrzej Dopierała, Marcin Gaweł, Antoni Gryzik, Natalia Jesionowska, Anna Kadulska, Mirosław Książek, Ewa Kutynia, Ewa Leśniak, Barbara Lubos-Rokita, Arkadiusz Machel, Marek Rachoń, Paweł Smagała, Kamil Suszczyk, Dawid Ściupidro, Zbigniew Wróbel, Nina Batovska.
Narodowy Stary Teatr, Kraków · Duża Scena · theatre, VR / online
Shakespeare's dream becomes a VR forest of avatars, fungi and metamorphosis. Virtuality is treated not as escape, but as a relation between bodies, nature, technology and desire.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Script / dramaturgy: Patrycja Wysokińska. Set / costumes: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Music: Bartosz Zaskórski. Choreography: Tomasz Bazan. Light / video coordination: Robert Mleczko. VR: Anastasiia Vorobiova, Mateusz Korsak. Cast: Bogdan Brzyski, Maciej Charyton, Małgorzata Gałkowska, Roman Gancarczyk, Grzegorz Grabowski, Bolesław Brzozowski, Paweł Kruszelnicki, Mikołaj Kubacki, Marta Ojrzyńska, Magda Grąziowska, Błażej Peszek, Małgorzata Zawadzka, Krzysztof Zawadzki, Maja Pankiewicz, Aleksandra Nowosadko.
Video: Sen nocy letniej teaser. Production page. 11 photos (Costume sketches and set elements) in the full archive.
theatre
The full Freiburg Faust cycle as an inquiry into knowledge, contract and transformation.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Music: Jan Duszyński. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska.
Video: FAUST - A Virtual Descent.
Theater Freiburg · VR / film / theatre · theatre, VR / online
Goethe's universe becomes a descent through myth, war, science, philosophy, capital and the Anthropocene. Live stage, film and VR meet through actors, avatars and cameras.
Direction / live camera: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Set / costumes / light: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. VR design: Dream Adoption Society. Dramaturgy: Tamina Theiß, Laura Ellersdorfer. Composition: Jan Duszyński. Cast: Thieß Brammer, Victor Calero, Lou Friedmann, Janna Horstmann, Stefanie Mrachacz.
Video: Faust A Virtual Descent. Production page. 43 photos (Photos · Britt Schilling) in the full archive.
Ślimak · short film, 10 min · HBO · W domu (At Home) · film
A short film made in the spring 2020 lockdown for HBO's W domu (At Home). Two phantasms, He and She, meet as avatars in a virtual world: at a ball, in the serpentine of a snail, through an open Yorishiro portal, while life at home goes on in kitchens, bathtubs and the woods outside. Seven scenes end with the motion of the snail: A, PO, RIA.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Created by Dream Adoption Society: Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Anastasiia Vorobiova, Sandra Korzeniak, Jan Duszyński, Robert Mleczko, Aleksandra Wasilkowska.
12 photos (Stills from the film) in the full archive.
Dream Adoption Society · VR / online · VR / online
A pandemic VR and online precursor to Germinal: rehearsals and live performance move into shared digital bodies and a virtual social space.
11 photos (Stills · film) in the full archive.
2019 / 2020 · CultureHub / La MaMa, New York · VR / online · VR / online
A VR meditation between virtual realms and Philip K. Dick's Exegesis, developed with CultureHub and La MaMa as live digital performance.
10 photos (Stills · VR recordings, 2020) in the full archive.
Narodowy Stary Teatr, Kraków · Duża Scena · premiere 28 March 2019 · theatre
A meditation on nothingness after Malevich, Leśmian, Daumal, Wodziński and U.G. Krishnamurti. Poetry, philosophy, the Holocaust and darkness form a slow perceptual ritual.
Direction / adaptation: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Set design: Robert Mleczko, Jan Strumiłło. Light: Robert Mleczko. Choreography: Marta Ziółek. Costumes: Marcin Kosakowski. Music: Jan Duszyński. Video: Yan Kalnberzin. Cast: Olga Belinskaia, Bogdan Brzyski, Maciej Charyton, Krystian Durman, Roman Gancarczyk, Grzegorz Grabowski, Magda Grąziowska, Mikołaj Jodliński, Paweł Kruszelnicki, Mikołaj Kubacki, Błażej Peszek, Krzysztof Zawadzki. Photos: Narodowy Stary Teatr.
Production page. 10 photos (Photos · Narodowy Stary Teatr) in the full archive.
VR / online
A book, AR application and VR city in which parallel realities occupy the same buildings.
Production page. 10 photos (Stills · Aporia VR) in the full archive.
lab / event, VR / online
A meeting of BRUD and Dream Adoption Society through VR, AR, 360 video and sound installation.
Production page. 7 photos (Stills · Hyperframe, 360° video) in the full archive.
Teatr Powszechny, Warszawa / Dream Adoption Society · Scena Mała · theatre, VR / online
A shared VR theatre work after Tadeusz Miciński. Tatra mysticism and real-time virtual reality become a common but privately experienced space.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. VR artists: Maciej Gniady, Marta Nawrot, Mateusz Świderski, Jagoda Wójtowicz. Choreography: Iza Szostak. Costumes: Marcin Kosakowski. Music: Jan Duszyński. Cast: Karolina Adamczyk, Aleksandra Bożek, Magdalena Koleśnik, Oskar Stoczyński, Iza Szostak, Julian Świeżewski, Julia Wyszyńska.
Video: Nietota teaser. Production page.
VR / online
A multiplayer VR theatre work where spectators share a virtual environment while remaining physically separate.
Production page. 15 photos (Photos · New York, June 2018) in the full archive.
VR / online
A counterfactual meeting of two poets, built through performance, live scanning and shared VR.
VR / online
Raymond Roussel's artificial garden reimagined as a VR dream world of clones, guides and transformation.
Nowy Teatr, Warszawa · Uczta, after Plato · premiere 8 February 2018 · theatre, VR / online
A philosophical banquet on Eros and mediated presence, expanded through VR.
Translation / dramaturgy: Andrzej Serafin. Direction / adaptation: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Costumes: Sławomir Blaszewski. Music: Jan Duszyński. Light: Bartosz Nalazek. Video: Robert Mleczko. VR: Maciej Gniady, Marta Nawrot, Jagoda Wójtowicz. Cast: Bartosz Bielenia, Magdalena Cielecka / Katia Goulioni, Bartosz Gelner, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik / Ewelina Pankowska, Wojciech Kalarus, Jaśmina Polak, Piotr Polak, Jacek Poniedziałek, Magdalena Popławska / Maria Kresa, Paweł Smagała / Jan Sobolewski / Jan Dravnel. Photos: Magda Hueckel.
Production page. 4 photos (Photos · Magda Hueckel) in the full archive.
theatre, VR / online
A New York iteration of the Robert Robur universe.
Direction / adaptation: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
Teatr Powszechny, Warszawa · Scena Duża · theatre
Reymont's village becomes a contemporary social organism: landscape, labour, ritual, ecology, violence and the folwark structure observed through a sharp theatrical lens.
Direction / adaptation: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Set design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Jan Strumiłło. Costumes: Sławomir Blaszewski. Video: Robert Mleczko. Music: Jan Duszyński. Light: Bartosz Nalazek. Cast: Karolina Adamczyk, Grzegorz Artman, Klara Bielawka, Arkadiusz Brykalski, Michał Czachor, Grzegorz Falkowski, Anna Ilczuk, Michał Jarmicki, Andrzej Kłak, Magdalena Koleśnik, Mateusz Łasowski, Ewa Skibińska, Paweł Smagała, Barbara Wysocka, Kazimierz Wysota, Julia Wyszyńska.
Video: The Peasants Part II recording. Production page. 34 photos (Photos · Magda Hueckel) in the full archive.
2017 / 2019 · Exhibition / field research · lab / event
A gallery version of field research: the theatrical apparatus leaves the stage and becomes an environment for research, performers and landscape.
9 photos (Stills · Field Investigation, final film) in the full archive.
VR / online
An interactive VR installation after Tadeusz Kościuszko, moving between heroic memory and embodied simulation.
Production page. 8 photos (Stills · VR) in the full archive.
Tak zwana ludzkość w obłędzie · VR · theatre, VR / online
Part of the Wrocław project Tak zwana ludzkość w obłędzie, where Plato's Republic enters a wider montage of texts. Performers in protective suits guide spectators through a VR state.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
19 photos (Photos · 18 November 2017) in the full archive.
Teatr Studio, Warszawa · Wyzwolenie, after Stanisław Wyspiański · premiere 9 March 2017 · theatre
Wyspiański reframed as a national operating system of walls, labour and collective identity.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Music: Jan Duszyński. Photos: Krzysztof Bieliński / STUDIO teatrgaleria.
7 photos (Photos · Krzysztof Bieliński / STUDIO teatrgaleria) in the full archive.
Opera Rara Kraków / Capella Cracoviensis · opera
Philip Glass's open musical form becomes a stage situation for bodies, voices and autonomous visual worlds.
Production page. 10 photos (Stills · performance recording) in the full archive.
TR Warszawa · 360° VR / theatre · after Mirosław Nahacz · premiere 10 June 2016 · theatre, VR / online
A dystopian media fiction about light, surveillance and manipulation, staged as a theatrical 360-degree machine.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Adaptation: Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Jakub Żulczyk. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Video: Robert Mleczko. Music: Jan Duszyński. Costumes: Sławomir Blaszewski. Light: Bartosz Nalazek. Camera: Robert Mleczko, Jędrzej Jęcikowski, Kamil Gubała. Cast: Paweł Smagała, Justyna Wasilewska, Natalia Kalita, Cezary Kosiński, Agnieszka Żulewska, Sebastian Pawlak, Dobromir Dymecki, Lech Łotocki, Jan Dravnel, Sandra Korzeniak / Marta Malikowska, Tomasz Tyndyk / Rafał Maćkowiak. Photos: Magda Hueckel.
Video: Robert Robur – 360 VR teaser. Production page. 19 photos (Photos · Magda Hueckel, actors' session, May 2016; Stills · 360° recordings, 2016) in the full archive.
Volksbühne Berlin · after Raymond Roussel · April 2016 · theatre
Raymond Roussel's machine of invention as a theatrical laboratory of artificial bodies and impossible procedures.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Marcin Cecko, Anna Heesen. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Costumes: Svenja Gassen. Music: Rudolf Moser. Video: Robert Mleczko. Camera: Kathrin Krottenthaler. Light: Frank Novak. Sound: Hans-Georg Teubert. Cast: Tomasz Bazan, Pheline Roggan, Paweł Smagała, Jeanette Spassova, Axel Wandtke, Justyna Wasilewska, Jim Fletcher. Photos: Thomas Aurin.
Production page. 4 photos (Photos · Thomas Aurin) in the full archive.
Narodowy Stary Teatr, Kraków · Scena Kameralna · theatre
Gombrowicz's world of signs and compulsive connections is turned into an image-system where every detail threatens to become a cosmic clue.
Direction / dramaturgical adaptation: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Music: Jan Duszyński. Video: Robert Mleczko. Light: Bartosz Nalazek. Choreography: Izabela Szostak. Cast: Roman Gancarczyk, Paweł Kruszelnicki, Jaśmina Polak, Marta Ścisłowicz, Maciej Charyton, Błażej Peszek, Małgorzata Gorol.
Video: Kosmos trailer. Production page. 16 photos (Photos · Joanna Gałuszka) in the full archive.
Komuna Warszawa · AR / HoloLens · VR / online
An AR performance at Komuna Warszawa. Wearing HoloLens glasses, the “spectactor” meets Leron Miszek, a live 3D-scanned avatar of Miron Białoszewski, and talks with him over an intercom to create a piece of ephemeral, playful word poetry.
Narodowy Stary Teatr, Kraków · Duża Scena · theatre
Elsinore becomes a web of mirrors, screens and multiple Hamlets. The title figure is split across bodies and the play becomes a matrix for possible identities.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Script: Marcin Cecko, Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy: Marcin Cecko. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Video / light: Robert Mleczko, Marek Kozakiewicz. Costumes: Svenja Gassen, Sławomir Blaszewski. Cast: Bartosz Bielenia, Krzysztof Zarzecki, Roman Gancarczyk, Jaśmina Polak, Paweł Smagała, Marta Ojrzyńska, Zygmunt Józefczak, Małgorzata Gałkowska, Aleksandra Nowosadko, Bogdan Brzyski, Szymon Czacki, Maciej Charyton, Krzysztof Zawadzki, Iwona Budner, Paweł Kruszelnicki, Monika Frajczyk, Mikołaj Kubacki.
Video: Hamlet trailer. Production page. 16 photos (Photos · Magda Hueckel) in the full archive.
Saint Petersburg · New Stage · theatre
Garbaczewski's Russian debut: a multimedia Macbeth that the theatre described as a milestone in the New Stage's search for a new scenic language.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
Video: Macbeth trailer. 11 photos (Photos · Vladimir Lupovskoy) in the full archive.
Teatr Polski, Wrocław · Scena im. Jerzego Grzegorzewskiego · after William Shakespeare, translated by Stanisław Barańczak · premiere 7 February 2015 · theatre
Shakespeare's island as exile, rule, projection and storm.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Text / dramaturgy: Marcin Cecko. Set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Costumes: Sławek Blaszewski. Video / light: Robert Mleczko. Live video: Marek Kozakiewicz. Music: Jan Duszyński. Cast: Ewa Skibińska, Małgorzata Gorol, Anna Ilczuk, Halina Rasiakówna, Adam Cywka, Andrzej Kłak, Rafał Kronenberger, Cezary Łukaszewicz, Marcin Pempuś, Paweł Smagała, Andrzej Szeremeta, Wojciech Ziemiański. Live music: Romani Bacht.
Video: The Tempest trailer. Production page. 12 photos (Stills · performance recording, 2015) in the full archive.
Film, 50 min · after Marcel Proust · Uwięziona / The Captive · film
A film after Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, built around The Captive: Marcel and Albertine caught between jealousy, memory and the wish to hold on to another person and to time itself.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Cinematography: Robert Mleczko, Marek Kozakiewicz. Editing: Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Tomasz Mączka. Music: Jan Duszyński. Set decoration: Jan Strumiłło. Costumes: Svenja Gassen. Make-up: Yeorg Kronnagel. Production: Małgorzata Kozioł, Radosław Mirski. Cast: Justyna Wasilewska, Krzysztof Zarzecki, Agnieszka Żulewska, Bartosz Gelner, Paweł Smagała, Grażyna Misiorowska, Karolina Piechota, Izabela Gwizdak and Jacek Poniedziałek. With: Zofia Bielewicz, Waldemar Kotas, Sylwester Piechura, Aleksandra Cwen, Mirosław Bednarek, Łukasz Wójcik, Łukasz Schmidt, Leszek Malec, Beata Malec, Jacek Dzisiewicz, Sylwia Zmitrowicz.
10 photos (Stills from the film) in the full archive.
Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa · Zwycięstwo nad słońcem / Solarize · opera
Two one-act operas place contemporary Polish music, voice, light and stage machinery inside a futurist orbit. The project joins Sławomir Wojciechowski's Zwycięstwo nad słońcem with Marcin Stańczyk's Solarize.
Zwycięstwo nad słońcem: Music: Sławomir Wojciechowski; libretto: Marcin Cecko; conductor: Marta Kluczyńska; direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski; set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska; video: Robert Mleczko. Solarize: Music: Marcin Stańczyk; libretto: Andrzej Szpindler; conductor: Marta Kluczyńska; direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski; set design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska; video: Robert Mleczko; dramaturgy: Marcin Cecko.
Video: Projekt P video player. Production page. 22 photos (Stills · Zwycięstwo nad słońcem, performance recording; Stills · Solarize, performance recording) in the full archive.
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An international staging of Camus's tyrant, placed in Garbaczewski's line of philosophical and political meditations on power.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
22 photos (Photos · Conny Mirbach) in the full archive.
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A Warsaw Uprising project about civilians trapped in isolation, where history, grave imagery and contemporary media meet.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
28 photos in the full archive.
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A mediated excavation of Polish kings, national identity and historical fantasy, staged through screens and crypts.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
13 photos (Photos · Magda Hueckel) in the full archive.
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A radical reassembly of a Polish classic, where national myth, gender violence and image systems collide.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
12 photos in the full archive.
Łódź, courtyard at Piotrkowska 37 · after Bernard-Marie Koltès · theatre
Bernard-Marie Koltès's dialogue of the dealer and the client, played site-specific in a Łódź courtyard at Piotrkowska 37.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
12 photos (Stills · performance recording, May 2013) in the full archive.
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Gombrowicz's private ledger as theatre of self-recording and exposure.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu · Premiere 15 April 2012 · theatre
Gombrowicz's chamber play becomes a film-set-like stage apparatus, extending the experiments with live camera and screened theatrical images.
Direction / set design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Dramaturgy / music: Marcin Cecko. Costumes: Julia Kornacka. Light: Wojciech Puś.
15 photos (Photos · April 2012; Poster) in the full archive.
New York · Erik Ehn's Soulographie · theatre
A New York project within Erik Ehn's Soulographie cycle, placed in a wider international field of memory and forgiveness.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Collaboration: Marcin Cecko. Text: Erik Ehn.
18 photos (Photos · New York, November 2012) in the full archive.
Nowy Teatr, Warszawa · Bronisław Malinowski archive · theatre
Malinowski's anthropology, field diary and colonial gaze are confronted with contemporary taboos. The island becomes a moving territory where research, erotic politics and violence toward the observed object are exposed.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Script / dramaturgy: Marcin Cecko. Island concept: Aleksandra Wasilkowska. Music: Jan Duszyński. Costumes: Ania Kuczyńska / Andrzej Sobolewski. Choreographic consultation: Claude Bardouil. Cast: Justyna Białowąs, Dominika Biernat, Justyna Wasilewska, Tomasz Bazan, Bartosz Bielenia, Piotr Polak, Paweł Smagała, Krzysztof Zarzecki.
Video: The Sexual Life of Savages recording. Production page. 25 photos in the full archive.
Teatr Polski, Wrocław · Biesy, after Fyodor Dostoevsky · premiere 17 June 2010 · theatre
Dostoyevsky's political and spiritual fever as possession, ideology and unstable identity.
Direction / adaptation / set design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Translation: Zbigniew Podgórzec. Costumes: Marek Adamski. Music: Jan Duszyński. Choreography: Tomasz Wygoda. Light / video: Wojciech Puś. Live video: Bartosz Nalazek. Cast: Marcin Czarnik, Dariusz Maj, Halina Rasiakówna, Katarzyna Warnke, Jakub Giel, Marta Zięba, Ewa Skibińska, Paulina Chapko, Rafał Kronenberger, Adam Szczyszczaj, Błażej Michalski.
Production page. 10 photos (Stills · performance recording, 2010) in the full archive.
Teatr Dramatyczny im. Jerzego Szaniawskiego, Wałbrzych · Kino Zorza · Gwiazda śmierci, text by Marcin Cecko · premiere 25 September 2010 · theatre
A pop-cultural theatre machine staged through cameras, cinema space and spectatorship.
Direction / set design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Text / dramaturgy: Marcin Cecko. Costumes: Marek Adamski. Movement: Tomasz Wygoda. Light: Wojciech Puś. Cast: Małgorzata Łakomska, Jaśmina Polak, Irena Wójcik, Ewelina Żak, Daniel Chryc, Rafał Kosowski, Sebastian Łach, Dariusz Skowroński, Paweł Smagała, Michał Wanio, Ryszard Węgrzyn.
Video: Odyssey / Death Star trailer. Production page. 10 photos (Stills · video, 2010) in the full archive.
Teatr Polski, Wrocław · Scena na Świebodzkim · after the Tibetan Book of the Dead · premiere 6 March 2009 · theatre
A ritual meditation on death, transition and perception.
Direction / adaptation: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Translation: Ireneusz Kania. Set design: Anna Maria Karczmarska, Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Costumes: Anna Maria Karczmarska. Music: Jan Duszyński. Choreography: Tomasz Wygoda. Light: Wojciech Puś. Cast: Alicja Kwiatkowska, Halina Rasiakówna, Marcin Czarnik, Rafał Kronenberger, Cezary Kussyk, Adam Szczyszczaj, Krzysztof Zarzecki, Wojciech Ziemiański.
Production page. 10 photos (Stills · performance recording, 2009) in the full archive.
Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego, Opole · Odyseja, after Homer · premiere 15 November 2009 · theatre
The Homeric myth shifted toward Telemachus and a decomposed heroic narrative.
Direction / set design: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Script: Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Marcin Cecko. Dramaturgy / music / video: Marcin Cecko. Translation: Lucjan Siemieński. Costumes / performance: Anna Maria Karczmarska. Choreography: Mikołaj Mikołajczyk. Light: Wojciech Puś. Cast: Zofia Bielewicz, Aleksandra Cwen, Grażyna Misiorowska, Paweł Smagała, Mirosław Bednarek, Leszek Malec, Andrzej Jakubczyk, Jacek Dzisiewicz, Waldemar Kotas, Przemysław Czernik, Jarosław Dziedzic.
Video: Odyssey / Death Star trailer. Production page. 10 photos (Stills · performance recording, 2009) in the full archive.
Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego, Opole · Chór sportowy, by Elfriede Jelinek · premiere 14 March 2008 · theatre
Elfriede Jelinek through chorus, discipline and collective speech.
Direction: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Translation: Karolina Bikont. Set design: Anna Maria Karczmarska. Music: Adrian Jakuć-Łukaszewicz. Cast: Norbert Kaczorowski, Przemysław Czernik, Mirosław Bednarek, Waldemar Kotas, Paweł Smagała, Elżbieta Piwek, Zofia Bielewicz, Jacek Dzisiewicz.
Production page. 10 photos (Stills · performance recording, 2008) in the full archive.
Teatr Dramatyczny im. Jerzego Szaniawskiego, Wałbrzych · Opętani, after Witold Gombrowicz · premiere 21 November 2008 · theatre
Gombrowicz as a haunted labyrinth of obsession, doubles and cinematic fragmentation.
Direction / adaptation / music / video: Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Set and costumes: Anna Maria Karczmarska. Dramaturgy: Katarzyna Warnke. Choreography: Mikołaj Mikołajczyk. Cast: Dariusz Maj, Daniel Chryc, Rafał Kosowski, Paulina Chapko, Marta Zięba, Łukasz Brzeziński, Krzysztof Grabowski, Sławoj Jędrzejewski, Krzysztof Zarzecki, Irena Wójcik, Dariusz Skowroński, Paweł Smagała, Małgorzata Łakomska, Agnieszka Kwietniewska, Ryszard Węgrzyn, Andrzej Kłak, Małgorzata Białek, Ewelina Żak, Piotr Tokarz, Adam Wolańczyk.
Production page. 10 photos (Stills · performance recording, 2008) in the full archive.
(Some Thoughts On Plato, 2020: a short funny video with Sandra Korzeniak, Paweł Smagała, Jan Duszyński and Krzysztof Garbaczewski)