Theaters

I feel obliged to discover new places in my new city district, Praga, enter new spaces, encourage other people to come here to take a look at its brilliant possibilities, uncomplicated and joyous, lavish culture. Dom Kultury Praga seems to be a wonderful example of great new trace of new possibilities I found in my district.

Probably most of us (Poles) have very vague memories from our childhood when our parents sent us to one of Warsaw’s DKs so that we learned to play the guitar, singing, English, or whatever it was. My memories aren’t very pleasant. The teachers were quite strict, unsuited to teach children, unpleasant and unwilling to fit their set programme to the interests of the little ones.

Dom Kultury Praga immediately wiped out that bad experience in my head. I went there on a Friday evening to enjoy PentheMurder by Kropka Theatre. And do you know what…? I find it amazing and utterly invigorating that there is a group of people in Warsaw who have time and who are willing to play 1) von Kleist 2) in English 3) in front of a small audience 4) for free 5) on a Friday evening. Thanks to such people, there is hope for small theatres, just as there is huge admiration for such places as DK Praga.

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I find it hard to explain exactly why I like this place. But I shall try. First of all, this theatre has one of the best audiences in Warsaw (you have certainly already discovered how important this is for me…). I always found the people coming here interesting and well behaved. And this is extremely important in a theatre – I have already seen some stages in Warsaw, where people forgot to switch off their phones, or came totally ill (If you’re ill, you should stay in bed and if you’re very eager to take part in cultural life, you should just go to a cinema, right?).

I find TR Warszawa inspiring. With lots of ideas. Fresh. I admire the success of the actors – they perform many plays outside Warsaw and abroad. The theatre organizes interesting concerts and talks. And, what is maybe equally important, it doesn’t make you feel as if you were sitting in a theater. The plays are close to reality. This is why the theatre manager is said to be one of the best theatrical directors in Warsaw right now. And I couldn’t agree more.

To those of you who might take a Polish friend with you to translate: the play called Jackson Pollesch will absolutely amaze you.

This website was recommended to me almost three years ago by a friend of mine. She knew I was a student at that time and as any student I was also short of money. This is why I missed many brilliant performances in Warsaw and I hardly had the possibility to enjoy anything at the end of the month.

Then I got to know warszawagratis.info and I started going out and enjoying the Warsaw life absolutely… for free! The website lists cultural activities for a given day about a week in advance. You should not be too angry in the summer time – this is when the website suspends all activity until September, so there is not much to be found there. Also now the website gives information about far less performances than about a year or two ago – still it’s worth a visit to check on free museum admissions.

P.S. Yes, I know this is a website but it really is helpful when you are lost in the Warsaw’s cultural offer.