Generation After 10. Showcase

Generation After. Polish Performing Arts Showcase

Organized by the Nowy Teatr for the tenth time Generation After. Showcase is an intense presentation of new trends in the Polish theatre. It presents the newest developments taking place on Polish theatre stages to representatives and programmers of the most important festivals and theatre institutions from Europe, Asia and the Americas. This year's edition will be held on September 3-5, 2026. More info: showcase@nowyteatr.org

Everyone keeps talking about AI today. We propose a different meaning for the acronym.

Artistic Intelligence.

Artistic intelligence is one of the most valuable resources of art. It is the ability to feel, imagine, doubt, anticipate, and move beyond what is already known. It is a form of knowledge that does not emerge from databases, but from experience, intuition, and encounter. One of its most important instruments remains the body.

It is often said that the body does not lie. It speaks, suffers, arouses, resists, limits, falls ill, and dies. The body is the primal matter of all performative action. It is the body that searches, creates, remembers, and feels. It is fragile, vulnerable to injury, and mortal. Perhaps this is precisely why it possesses a unique capacity for empathy.

Today, we return to experiences that cannot be generated. To presence. To encounter. To emotion. To intuition. To the risk of being together in the same place and at the same time.

At a moment when we increasingly entrust answers to algorithms, art remains a place that creates questions.

PROGRAMME GENERATION AFTER 10. SHOWCASE

3.09.2026 Thursday

11:00 AM – 9:00 PM REGISTRATION
Nowy Teatr x Foyer

2:00 PM BOW Wojciech Grudziński
Dance and Other Performing Arts Pavilion
40 min

3:30 PM WUTHERING HEIGHTS. LOVE TO DIE Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art
100 min

6:30 PM FEAR OF FLYING Weronika Szczawińska
TR Warszawa
105 min

9:00 PM CLEAN Ramona Nagabczyńska
Nowy Teatr x Small Stage
55 min

10:00 PM WELCOME EVENING & ANNIVERSARY CAKE
Nowy Teatr x Foyer

4.09.2026 Friday

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM JOINT BRUNCH
in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Nowy Teatr x Foyer

12:30 – 1:30 PM FUTURE STAGE – PITCHING SESSION
in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Nowy Teatr x Foyer

2:00 PM MUSEUM OF THE ANTHROPOCENE Agata Siniarska
STUDIO theatregallery
55 min

4:30 PM SCHOOL OF SEDUCTION Magda Szpecht
Komuna Warszawa
60 min

6:00 PM DELIGHTING Daniel Kotowski
STUDIO theatregallery
20 min

6:30 PM GRAB A BITE!
courtesy of STUDIO theatregallery
STUDIO theatregallery

5.09.2026 Saturday

11:00 AM CLAP & SLAP Agnietė Lisičkinaitė and Igor Shugaleev
Nowy Teatr x Small Stage
45 min

11:00 AM HEAVY WEIGHT HOLDING BODY Karol Tymiński
site specific: Solec Street, under the Poniatowski bridge
40 min

12:30 PM POWER PLAY Samara Hersch
TR Warszawa
75 min

1:00 PM HEAVY WEIGHT HOLDING BODY Karol Tymiński
site specific: Solec Street, under the Poniatowski bridge
40 min

3:00 PM CLAP & SLAP Agnietė Lisičkinaitė and Igor Shugaleev
Nowy Teatr x Small Stage
45 min

4:30 PM DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD Ewa Platt
National Theatre in Warsaw x Boguslawski Hall
120 min

7:00 PM KOFMAN. DOUBLE BIND Katarzyna Kalwat
Nowy Teatr x Main Stage
135 min

9:20 PM NOTHING TWICE Cezary Tomaszewski
Komuna Warszawa
75 min

10:30 PM FAREWELL PARTY
Komuna Warszawa x Patio

ACCOMPANYING EVENTS

4.09.2026 Friday

3:00 PM VERY CHEAP Dominika Knapik & Patrycja Kowańska
STUDIO theatregallery x Malarnia

8:00 PM REQUIEM FOR A DREAM Jakub Skrzywanek
STUDIO theatregallery x Main Stage
140 min

8:00 PM GOTTAGIRL Jagoda Szelc
Dramatyczny Theatre x Small Stage
120 min

10:30 PM Curator-led tour by Tomasz Plata
KOMUNA. COLLECTION! – exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the Komuna Warszawa Association
Komuna Warszawa

5.09.2026 Saturday

3:00 PM VISTULA Weronika Pelczyńska
Dance and Other Performing Arts Pavilion
90 min

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Generation After 9. Showcase is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw.
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Organiser: Nowy Teatr

Cooperation: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Partners: Komuna Warszawa, STUDIO theatregallery, TR Warszawa, Dance and Other Performing Arts Pavilion – a branch of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, The Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre, The National Theatre, The Hieronim Konieczka Polish Theatre, The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre, Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art