Generation After 9. Showcase

Generation After. Polish Performing Arts Showcase

Organized by the Nowy Teatr for the ninth 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 4-6, 2025. More info: showcase@nowyteatr.org

Generation After 9. Showcase. Borderline Call

Walls, barricades, fences… all taking up more and more space with tacit consent and even social acceptance. Everyone shows an interest in them – some are terrorized, others afraid, some try to fight them or take them down.
The world falls apart in an instant. We live on the borderline, near the frontline, and this is plunging us into life's chaos and uncertainty, i.e. a milder or more severe borderline condition.

Clinical symptoms:
• Unstable image of people and the world
• Emotional instability (falling from euphoria to depression, significant mood swings over a seemingly trivial thing)
• Lack of goals and preferences
• Frequent and chronic feeling of emptiness

The result? Borderline theatre is seeping out of us. But who should we fear more: “them” or “us”? Where does one draw the line between them? Can we afford to wander around in the wrong direction all the time? Will we find a fern flower in the forest somewhere in these winding paths? And what shape will it take, since it doesn't exist anyway?

GENERATION AFTER 9. SHOWCASE PROGRAM

4.09.2025 Thursday

11:00-21:00 REGISTRATION
Nowy Teatr x Foyer

15:30 VOYAGE, VOYAGE, THE LEMON JOURNEY Bogusława Schubert
Nowy Teatr x Świetlica [note: the show performed in French]
50 min

16:30 THE FEMINIST KILLJOY HANDBOOK Mira Mańka
Nowy Teatr x Small Stage
90 min

19:00 COSMIC HOME Lina Lapelytė
TR Warszawa
55 min

21:00 TEACH ME NOT! Wojciech Grudziński, Maria M. Kozłowska
Nowy Teatr x Main Stage
70 min

22:20 WILL U MARRY ME? Igor Shugaleev
Nowy Teatr x Foyer
20 min

22:30 WELCOME EVENING
Nowy Teatr x Foyer

5.09.2025 Friday

11:00 HELENA Magdalena Dąbrowska
Theatre Academy
40 min

11:00 HOWL Kamil Białaszek
The Jewish Theatre
90 min

13:30 ENDLESS BOX Hana Umeda / Sada Hanasaki
Museum of Modern Art x Kinomuzeum
30 min

14:30 WORST CASE SCENARIO Aleksandra Jakubczak
Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art
60 min

16:30 ORGANZA Lesbi Pensjonari (Alka Nauman and Justyna Szklarczyk)
Komuna Warszawa
20 min

17:00 THE ESSENCE Edmund Krempiński, Jakub Dylewski
Komuna Warszawa
20 min

17:30 MIMESIS Natalia Sakowicz
Komuna Warszawa
25 min

18:00 TIKI-TAKA Marcin Miętus
Komuna Warszawa
45 min

19:00 I LOVE BALLET Ramona Nagabczyńska
Komuna Warszawa
60 min

20:30 GRAB A BITE!
courtesy of STUDIO theatregallery
STUDIO theatregallery

6.09.2025 Saturday

10:00-13:00 JOINT BRUNCH & OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION
in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Nowy Teatr x Foyer

14:00 I'M FINE Cezary Tomaszewski
STUDIO theatregallery
[TBC, approx. 60-90 min]

16:00 SHE STANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLEFIELD Magda Szpecht
Dramatyczny Theatre x Przodownik Stage
80 min

18:00 THE INDOMITABLE LOVE OF EVE ADAMS Olga Ciężkowska
Nowy Teatr x Small Stage
120 min

21:00 CALL ME JAY Agata Maszkiewicz
Komuna Warszawa
60 min

22:20 PLANET OF THE APES Jakub Zalasa
Komuna Warszawa
20 min

22:30 FAREWELL PARTY
Komuna Warszawa

ACCOMPANYING EVENTS

5.09.2025 Friday
12:30 PRESENTATION OF MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AND THE DANCE PAVILION
Museum of Modern Art
30 min

19:00 MEIN KAMPF Jakub Skrzywanek
Powszechny Theatre
150 min

19:00 ENDLESS BOX Hana Umeda / Sada Hanasaki
Museum of Modern Art x Kinomuzeum
30 min
[ticketed event]

19:00 WORST CASE SCENARIO Aleksandra Jakubczak
Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art
60 min

20:00 BOUNDARY SITUATION Michał Zadara
Museum of Modern Art x Auditorium
75 min

21:30 ALPHAGO_LEE. THEORY OF SACRIFICE Natalia Korczakowska
STUDIO theatregallery
[TBC, approx. 30-40 min]

6.09.2025 Saturday

10:00 GUIDED TOUR OF THE DANCE PAVILION
Dance Pavilion
60 min

15:30 EXODOS Przemek Kamiński
Museum of Modern Art x Auditorium
40 min

17:00 MEIN KAMPF Jakub Skrzywanek
Powszechny Theatre
150 min

19:00 WHAM BAM Krzysztof Zygucki
TR Warszawa
120 min

19:00 ENDLESS BOX Hana Umeda / Sada Hanasaki
Museum of Modern Art x Kinomuzeum
30 min
[ticketed event]

20:00 RIVER OF SORROW Michał Zadara
Museum of Modern Art x Auditorium
60 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.

Cooperation: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, British Council, Creative Scotland

Partners: Komuna Warszawa, STUDIO theatregallery, TR Warszawa, Teraz Poliż, The Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw and in Białystok, The Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre, The National Stary Theatre, The Jewish Theatre, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, CENTRALA – Performative Law Institute, Pawilon Poznań, Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, The Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre

Co-production of TEACH ME NOT! by Wojciech Grudziński: Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, Wojciech Grudziński, Nowy Teatr, Adam Mickiewicz Institute with the support of ICK Dans Amsterdam. Co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the Capital City of Warsaw.