Krystian Lupa - OPeRe

The Lake. Sketch for the set design by Krystian Lupa for Unfinished Work for an Actor, based on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play (2004). From the artist’s personal archive.

About
Krystian Lupa is a leading Polish theatre director, scenographer, and pedagogue. He has directed numerous critically acclaimed productions, including The Brothers Karamazov (1990), Kalkwerk (1992), Immanuel Kant and Ritter, Dene, Voss (1996), and The Sleepwalkers (1995, 1998), and has published several volumes of his writings on theatre. He has also taught at the State Higher Theatre School (PWST) in Kraków since 1983, with many of his students going on to become prominent directors and actors on the Polish and international theatre scene. In 2009 he was awarded the thirteenth edition of the Europe Theatre Prize.
Professional activities
directing, teaching, set design, costume design
Areas of interest
theatre, acting, directing, film, photography, set design, costume
Working languages
Polish, French, German, Russian
Links

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3200035

Contact

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Mailing address

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City
Kraków
Postcode
Country
Poland

Featured Work

Journal

Polish Theatre Perspectives 1

Edited by Duncan Jamieson and Adela Karsznia

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
Keywords

Tadeusz Kantor Polish theatre cross-cultural directing memory Krzysztof Warlikowski Nowy Teatr TR Warszawa Jacek Poniedziałek Magdalena Cielecka Piotr Gruszczyński Krystian Lupa ensemble acting William Shakespeare Jedwabne Jan T. Gross Hanna Krall Polish Jewish culture Polish identity Second World War Greek tragedy Jan Klata migration Andrzej Wajda film Germany Russia Anatoli Vassiliev documentation exclusion minority identities

Conversation

Returning to the Garden of Childhood

Krystian Lupa in conversation with Jean-Pierre Thibaudat and Béatrice Picon-Vallin

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
Keywords

Tadeusz Kantor Polish theatre directing drawings The Dead Class Krzysztof Warlikowski Krystian Lupa acting film Jerzy Grotowski training PWST landscape inner monologue Konrad Swinarski Jelenia Góra Jastrzębie Zdrój Europe Theatre Prize Jerzy Jarocki drama school Alina Obidniak Witkacy Kraków German literature Austrian literature Robert Musil design montage rhythm Factory 2 Kalkwerk staging text theatre space spectrum of concentration dreambody waking

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Connections

Duncan Jamieson

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

Working languages
English, Spanish, French, Polish, Polish (sign), Italian
Professional activities
research, editing, publishing, translating, directing, web development
Areas of interest
theatre & performance studies, cross-cultural performance, ethics, acting, directing, rehearsal practices, performer training, psychophysical performance, practice research, cultural translation, cognitive studies, decision making, gender studies, theatre history, historiography, contemporary philosophy, digital culture, social & cultural networks, memory studies, Polish theatre, Polish culture, Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, Tadeusz Kantor, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krystian Lupa, Latin American performance

Adela Karsznia

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

Working languages
Polish, Polish (sign), English, French, Yiddish
Professional activities
editing, translating, publishing, research, lecturing, web development
Areas of interest
cross-cultural performance, theatre & performance studies, Polish theatre, literature, Polish identity, theatre history, disability culture, gender & performance, memory studies

Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

publisher, resource, nonprofit organization

London, UK

Working languages
English, Polish
Professional activities
publishing
Areas of interest
Polish theatre, theatre, performance, drama, acting, directing, performer training

Grotowski Institute

cultural centre, archive, publisher, studio, performance venue

Wrocław, Poland

Working languages
Polish, English, French, Italian
Professional activities
performances, seminars, publishing, research
Areas of interest
Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, theatre, performance

Jean-Pierre Thibaudat

Paris, France

Working languages
French
Professional activities
theatre criticism
Areas of interest
theatre, Polish theatre, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski

Béatrice Picon-Vallin

Paris, France

Working languages
French, Russian
Professional activities
research, editing, publishing, translating, lecturing
Areas of interest
theatre, acting, laboratory theatres, ensemble, Russian theatre, East European theatre, Vsevolod Meyerhold

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