Sometimes people do things, which seem completely incomprehensible for others. Collecting spiders, taking ice baths or passing the entire days in front of the computer’s screen playing video games are included. I am particularly absorbed by theatre for children and young audiences, which is not a popular and seriously taken interest in Poland where I come from.

Poland has been a member of ASSITEJ for decades and we have a great tradition of puppet theatre, which due to historical purposes (over 40 years of communism and socialist realism) is equating with YTA (nowadays this situation is slowly changing). In our history have appeared many outstanding theatre artists like Krystyna Miłobędzka and Leokadia Serafinowicz (from Teatr Marcinek in Poznań); Jan Dorman (who set up his theatre in Będzin); Halina and Zbigniew Machulski (Teatr Ochoty in Warsaw) whose work was dedicated to children and young people. Weiterlesen →