Opening Night: 28 September 2003
Author: Stanisław Wyspiański
Title: "Hamlet" by Stanisław Wyspiański
Original Title: „Hamlet” Stanisława Wyspiańskiego
Director: Jerzy Grzegorzewski

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 1 hour 15 min

"Hamlet" by Stanisław Wyspiański

author of stage adaptation, director, set designer: Jerzy Grzegorzewski
costume design: Barbara Hanicka
music: Stanisław Radwan
lighting design: Mirosław Poznański

Fragments of William Shakespeare's dramas in translations by Józef Paszkowski and Stanisław Wyspiański

Awards and Nominations:

2004 – The Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award in theatre category to Jerzy Grzegorzewski for stage adaptation, direction and set design of „Hamlet” by Stanisław Wyspiański
2004 – nomination for the Warsaw Felix award in "the best supporting female role" category for Ewa Konstancja Bułhak-Rewak for the role of Wyspiański's Wife

Cast:

Wyspiański-Hamlet Wojciech Malajkat
Wyspiański's Wife Ewa Konstancja Bułhak-Rewak
Kazimierz Kamiński Igor Przegrodzki
Cracovian Ladies / Witches Wiesława Niemyska, Sylwia Nowiczewska / Beata Ścibakówna (from January 8, 2005), Magdalena Warzecha
Professors Marek Barbasiewicz, Mirosław Konarowski
Queen-Modrzejewska Anna Ułas
King-Macbeth Jan Englert
Ophelia-Courtesan Beata Fudalej
Ophelia-Ophelia Anna Gryszkówna (guest actress)
Horatio Józef Duriasz
Ghost Krzysztof Wakuliński
Rosencrantz / Guildenstern Grzegorz Małecki
Polonius Jacek Różański
Laertes Robert Jarociński
Osric / Actor Bartłomiej Bobrowski
Actors Sławomir Federowicz, Jerzy Łapiński
Isia ***

Production team:

  • vocal preparation: Mirosław Jastrzębski
    director's assistant: Piotr Wojewódzki
  • set designer's assistants: Jadwiga Michalska, Anita Trzaskowska
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Korneliusz Wieczorek
  • sound technicians: Rafał Barański, Mariusz Maszewski
  • stage manager: Ewa Dworecka
  • prompter: Alina Wieczorkówna

Gallery:

Wojciech Malajkat (Wyspiański-Hamlet), Anna Ułas (Queen-Modrzejewska), Anna Gryszkówna (Ophelia-Ophelia) and the Company. Phot. Michał Mrowiec

  • A DREAM PLAY

    After the well-received Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Sławomir Narloch returned to the National Theatre with another premiere – A Dream Play by Strindberg.

     

  • KING LEAR

    King Lear may be Shakespeare's boldest examination of human nature. Jan Englert plays the title role. The tragedy directed by Grzegorz Wiśniewski. 

  • WAITING FOR GODOT

    Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot by Beckett. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power? And, are we still waiting?


  • FREDRO. THE JUBILEE YEAR

    To celebrate 230 years since Aleksander Fredro's birth, the National Theatre invites you to an evening dedicated to the life and works of Poland’s greatest comedy writer. 

  • TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS

    Vienna in economic crisis and its lost inhabitants; portrait of the society in which fascism is born. Małgorzata Bogajewska directs Ödön von Horváth's 1931 drama.

  • THE THEATRE MAKER

    The play by Thomas Bernhard, one of the most outstanding playwrights of the second half of the 20th century. In the title role – Jerzy Radziwiłowicz. 

  • ALICE'S WONDERLAND

    Have you ever quarreled with the Time or visited a forest where things have no names? The musical performance based on the famous novels by Lewis Carroll. 

  • THE MISANTHROPE

    Jan Englert stages a classic play by Molière. What is Alcest's misanthropy: an uncompromising commitment to the truth or a doomed uprising against social conventions?

  • THE BOOKS OF JACOB

    Staging the most important novel by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk directed by Michał Zadara. 

  • THE DECALOGUE

    An iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation. Wojciech Faruga directs The Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz. 


  • MARY STUART

    Grzegorz Wiśniewski returns to the classic drama about human passions interwoven in a ruthless machinery of history and intrigue.

  • MÜNCHHAUSEN FOR ADULTS

    Maciej Wojtyszko directs his own play about Baron von Münchhausen, a famous adventurer and swindler.


  • Solidarity with Ukraine | Солідарні з Україною

    The ensemble of the National Theatre stands in solidarity with the Ukrainians who are fighting for the independence of their homeland.

  • TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL

    Complicated love intrigues and music. Piotr Cieplak directs Twelfth Night, or What You Will, one of Shakespeare's most important comedies.


  • PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

    The new theatrical version of the Australian prose classics directed by Lena Frankiewicz. In the role of Mrs Appleyard – Ewa Wiśniewska.


  • SNAKE SKIN

    Artur Urbański directs his own play which main character is Ruth Berlau, one of Bertolt Brecht's closest associates and life companions.


  • SNOW

    Staging of the Young Poland movement modernist drama by Stanisław Przybyszewski – Snow directed by Anna Gryszkówna.


  • AUTUMN SONATA

    A theatrical version of the famous film by Ingmar Bergman directed by Grzegorz Wiśniewski. Danuta Stenka as Charlotte.


  • MOTHER JOAN OF ANGELS

    How does evil arise that we do not understand?Mother Joan of Angles by Iwaszkiewicz directed by Wojciech Faruga. 


  • The National Theatre at Google Cultural Institute

    Virtual exhibition 250 Years of Teatr Narodowy (National Theatre of Poland) is available online at Google Cultural Institute.


Korzystając z serwisu internetowego Teatru Narodowego akceptujesz zasady Polityki prywatności oraz wyrażasz zgodę na używanie plików cookie. Plik cookie możesz zablokować za pomocą opcji dostępnych w przeglądarce internetowej. Aby dowiedzieć się więcej na temat cookie, kliknij tutaj