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An Evening with Martyna Majok
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An Evening with Martyna Majok
A Conversation with Playwright and Pulitzer Prize Winner Martyna Majok
Monday 27 November 2023
United States
Segal Center Publication: Four Plays by Dorota Masłowska
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Segal Center Publication: Four Plays by Dorota Masłowska
Celebrating the Latest Segal Center Publication as Part of the Rehearsal for Truth Festival 2023
Friday 2 June 2023
United States
Segal Talk with Sasha Denisova (Ukraine), Igor Golyak (US/Ukraine), Sara Stackhouse (US), and Irina Kruzhilina (US)
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Segal Talk with Sasha Denisova (Ukraine), Igor Golyak (US/Ukraine), Sara Stackhouse (US), and Irina Kruzhilina (US)
Discussing Their Production of Sasha Denisova’s The Gaaga (The Hague)
Monday 8 May 2023
New York City
The Fatherkillers
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The Fatherkillers

A Debate with Five Polish Women Theatre Directors

Friday 16 December 2016
Paris, France

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland), Alternatives théâtrales: La revue du théâtre contemporain (Belgium), and Galerie Hus (France) presented The Fatherkillers—a debate with five Polish women theatre directors. Friday 16 December 2016. In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround.

A performance of WarSawSirenaF451 at Project Curie City-experimental incubator of art from Warsaw
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A performance of WarSawSirenaF451 at Project Curie City-experimental incubator of art from Warsaw

Thursday 15 December 2016
Paris, France

Project Curie City presented a performance of WarSawSirenaF451—scenes by Warsaw women—livestreamed from Paris, France on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 15 December. In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround

Radical Theatre in Poland
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Radical Theatre in Poland

27 November 2016

Brian Hashimoto travels to Poland and reports on the 2016 Malta Festival.

Lecture by Bojana Kunst, Author of Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism
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Lecture by Bojana Kunst, Author of Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism

Monday 10 October 2016
Lublin, Poland

The 21st edition of Konfrontacje Festival in Lublin, Poland presented a lecture by Bojana Kunst, author of Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 10 October at 15:00 CEST (Lublin/Berlin) / 16:00 EEST (Bucharest) / 2 p.m. BST (London) / 13:00 UTC / 9 a.m. EDT (New York). Follow @HowlRoundTV and @konfrontacje on Twitter for updates.

Performance of Parental Ctrl by Groundfloor Group (Romania)
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Performance of Parental Ctrl by Groundfloor Group (Romania)

Saturday 8 October 2016

The 21st edition of Konfrontacje Festival in Lublin, Poland presented a performance of Parental Ctrl by Groundfloor Group (Romania) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 8 October at 18:00 CEST (Berlin) / 19:00 EEST (Bucharest) / 5 p.m. BST (London) / 16:00 UTC / 12 p.m. EDT (New York) / 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco). Follow @HowlRoundTV and @konfrontacje on Twitter for updates. 

Can Tadeusz Kantor’s ideas about death be revived in theatre about dementia?
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Can Tadeusz Kantor’s ideas about death be revived in theatre about dementia?

4 May 2016

Minna Vallaste writes about a piece she created about dementia using ideas from Kantor’s Theatre of Death.

Remembering Amelia Hertz: Decadent Histories: Four Plays
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Remembering Amelia Hertz: Decadent Histories: Four Plays

Monday 28 March 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented a reading and discussion about Polish-Jewish playwright Amelia Hertz (1878-1942) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 28 March at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:30 GMT / 23:30 BST (London). On Twitter, use #howlround to join the conversation.

Spectacular
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Spectacular

The Art of Theatre Spectacle

15 September 2015

Playwright and actor Natalie Osborne distinguishes spectacle from special effects and advocates for spectacle with minimalist staging.

The Reduta Theatre
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The Reduta Theatre

Grotowski’s Forgotten Model

7 August 2015

Scholar Cole Matson explores the influence of the Reduta Theatre in Poland on Jerzy Grotowski and the Polish experimental theatre tradition.

A Conversation between Stacy Klein of Double Edge Theatre and Jennifer Johnson of The Charlestown Working Theater
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A Conversation between Stacy Klein of Double Edge Theatre and Jennifer Johnson of The Charlestown Working Theater

29 April 2015

Jennifer Johnson, of The Charlestown Working Theater, who has trained with Double Edge Theatre, interviews Stacy Klein, Founding Artistic Director of Double Edge about the evolution of Double Edge’s training method.

Women Directors in Poland
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Women Directors in Poland

11 April 2015

Scholar Magda Romanska presents an overview of contemporary women directors in Poland.

A Real Fictitious Discourse
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A Real Fictitious Discourse

Weronika Szczawińska

17 December 2014

In this installation of the Polish Theater series, Agnieszka Jakimiak talks about the experimental work of Weronika Szczawińska: ever-changing, consistently challenging, and rewarding.

Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski
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Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski

The Theater of Social Anarchy

16 December 2014

Iulia Popovici shares the work of Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski, a couple who make challenging and exciting work often based on political events happening in Poland.

Theater of the Eighth Day and Travel Agency Theater—from Student Theatre to Mainstream Polish Alternative
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Theater of the Eighth Day and Travel Agency Theater—from Student Theatre to Mainstream Polish Alternative

15 December 2014

Joanna Wojciechowska explores the work of two theatre companies originally founded by students, now as leaders in Polish experimental theatre, making exciting work in Poland and abroad.

Under Pressure
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Under Pressure

Polish Theatre and The Crisis of Public Theatre Institutions

15 December 2014

Marta Keil presents an overview of the Polish theatre, tracing movements within a new political theatre, addressing the pressure of the market and the openness to artistic experimentation.

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Livestreaming Essence of Polish Contemporary Theater Life Until Yesterday
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Livestreaming Essence of Polish Contemporary Theater Life Until Yesterday

Monday, November 3 2014
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage in Boston presents the talk "Essence of Polish Contemporary Theater Life Until Yesterday" livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday, November 3 at 1pm PST (Vancouver) / 2pm MST (Calgary) / 3pm CST (Chicago) / 4pm EST (Montreal) / 21:00 GMT (London) / 22:00 CET (Warszawa). In Twitter, use #newplay to participate in conversation. Szymon Wróblewski with Andrzej Chyra will lead a conversation giving insight to the current trends and cutting edge of Polish theater today. The conversation will be framed around the contemporary directors defining the moment and include excerpts of their work.

A Polish Theater Cookbook
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A Polish Theater Cookbook

Onstage Diversity in Postwar Society

9 October 2014

Many Polish theaters seek to explore Poland's diverse heritage or to connect with other cultures in Europe, but lack immediate access to a large multiethnic pool of actors. Despite the obstacle of recent history, many contemporary Polish theaters present and honor different forms of diversity onstage.

A Polish Theater Cookbook
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A Polish Theater Cookbook

The Closed and Open Door

25 August 2014

One of the stereotypes about the post-Grotowski Polish ensemble theaters is that their processes are rigidly closed and their rehearsal rooms are treated like devotional spaces. There is often a way through a more closed door, but you may have to put on your sweatpants.

Polish theater in rehearsal.
A Polish Theater Cookbook
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A Polish Theater Cookbook

Rehearsing Without Breaks

10 March 2014

The last two posts of this series have documented the kinds of rehearsal scheduling and breaks that some of the Polish post-Grotowski theaters use. However, in addition to this normal set of practices, on rare occasions, some theaters rehearse without taking any breaks at all.

Two people pulling guns on each other.
A Polish Theater Cookbook
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A Polish Theater Cookbook

How to Make Rehearsal Time Flexible

21 February 2014

This period of shared, relaxed time puts the performers in harmony with the theater, the rehearsal, and their fellow actors. It's like musicians tuning in the same room together. When I participated in this pre-rehearsal hangout, despite my initial antsiness, and not knowing what to do with this unstructured time, I found that my mind grew calmer. The flexible start was a moment of meditation before a strenuous activity: a deep breath before the dive.

A room of children dancing.
A Polish Theater Cookbook
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A Polish Theater Cookbook

The Loose 20 Minute Break

9 February 2014

Our US union regulations and laws require us to take breaks of a certain time, at a certain time. But nothing requires us to take *exactly* and *only* 5 minutes every hour or 10 minutes every 90. Why not, as an experiment, give them more? Why not make one break longer, and looser? An ongoing series of reports from rehearsal rooms and interviews with theater people in Poland; how US artists can modify or adapt Polish techniques for their own rehearsal kitchens.

Actors pose during an acting exercise.
A Polish Theater Cookbook, Part Three
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A Polish Theater Cookbook, Part Three

24 January 2014

Yes, some rehearsals (not all, mind you) are paid, and have to be regulated, legally, as work. But why did we decide, as US practitioners, that theater rehearsals fell so wholly into the realm of work and were so utterly unlike things such as parties or play? Why did we push rehearsals all the way to one end of the work-play spectrum? How did we become afraid of rehearsing without a stopwatch?

A slightly open cookbook.
A Polish Theater Cookbook, Part Two
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A Polish Theater Cookbook, Part Two

10 January 2014

We need to spend a little time talking about the Julia Child of Polish theater—Jerzy Grotowski—before we can get on to the contemporary companies which have emerged from this figure's work, and their rehearsal practices. So—who was Jerzy Grotowski? If you've ever seen the film "My Dinner with Andre", you've heard of the experiments of this compelling, controversial, sham-or-shaman theater director.

Introducing A Polish Theater Cookbook
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Introducing A Polish Theater Cookbook

28 December 2013

Dara Weinberg reports from rehearsal rooms and interviews with directors in Poland; how US artists can modify or adapt Polish techniques for their own kitchens.

Polish Theatre
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Polish Theatre

An exploration of different kinds of theatre happening in Poland.