Krzysztof Warlikowski

Compiled by Adela Karsznia with Katarzyna Łuszczyk, for Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP). For more details and an accompanying bibliography, see ‘Krzysztof Warlikowski: Chronology of life and work’ in PTP 1 (2015).

• Born (26 May 1962)

  Szczecin, Poland

• Education (1980-83)

  Studied History, Philosophy, and Romance languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

• Education (1983)

  Studied History of Greek theatre at the École Pratique Des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris

• Training (1989-93)

  Diploma in Theatre Directing at the State Higher Theatre School (PWST) in Kraków

• Malte (1991)

  Assistant Director to Krystian Lupa on his production of Malte, based on texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, at the Stary Teatr in Kraków

• Impressions de Pélleas (1992)

  Assistant director to Peter Brook on his production of Impressions de Pélleas, after the opera Peleas i Melisanda by Claude Debussy, at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris

• Auto da fé (1992)

  By Elias Canetti
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 10 March 1992 at PWST, Kraków

• Białe Noce (White Nights) (1992)

  By Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: June 1992 at PWST, Kraków

• Markiza O (The Marquise of O) (1993)

  By Heinrich von Kleist
  Translated, adapted, and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 20 February 1993 at the Stary Teatr, Kraków

• Trucizna teatru (The Theatre’s Poison) (1993)

  By Rodolf Sirera
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 3 December 1993 at the Teatr Nowy, Poznań

• Zbrodnia przy ulicy Lourcine (The Affair In the Rue de Lourcine) (1994)

  By Eugène Labiche
  Translated and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: January 1994 at PWST, Wrocław

• Training (1994)

  Trained with Ingmar Bergman at the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern in Stockholm, and with Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.

• Kupiec wenecki (The Merchant of Venice) (1994)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 18 September 1994 at the Teatr im. Wilama Horzycy, Toruń

• Ludwig. Tod Eines Konigs (Ludwig: Death of a King) (1994)

  Based on The Barred Window by Klaus Mann
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 12 November 1994 at the Kammerspiele Theatre, Hamburg

• Ha-Mishnapad (The Trial) (1995)

  By Franz Kafka
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 1995 at Beit Zvi School of Drama, Tel Aviv

• Roberto Zucco (1995)

  By Bernard-Marie Koltès
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 22 September 1995 at the Teatr Nowy, Poznań

• Zatrudnimy starego klowna (Old Clown Wanted) (1996)

  By Matei Vişniec
  Translated and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 9 June 1996 at the Stary Teatr, Kraków

• Elektra (Electra) (1997)

  By Sophocles
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 18 January 1997 at the Teatr Dramatyczny, Warsaw

• Opowieść zimowa (A Winter’s Tale) (1997)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 5 April 1997 at the Teatr Nowy, Poznań

• Tancerz mecenasa Kraykowskiego (Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer) (1997)

  By Witold Gombrowicz
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 11 June 1997 at the Teatr Powszechny, Radom

• Hamlet (1997)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 5 July 1997 at Beit Zvi School of Drama, Tel Aviv

• Poskromienie złośnicy (The Taming of the Shrew) (1997)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premieres: 31 December 1997 and 3 January 1998 at the Teatr Dramatyczny, Warsaw

• Pericle, principe di Tiro (Pericles, Prince of Tyre) (1998)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 27 January 1998 at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano

• Zapadno pristaniste (Quay West) (1998)

  By Bernard-Marie Koltès
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 3 April 1998 at Gradsko Dramsko kazalište Gavella, Zagreb

• Hanashim hafanikiot (The Phoenician Women) (1998)

  By Euripides
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: August 1998 at the Municipal Theatre, Beer Sheva

• Zachodnie wybrzeże (Quay West) (1998)

  By Bernard-Marie Koltès
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 10 October 1998 at the Teatr Studio, Warsaw

• Was ihr wollt (Twelfth Night or What You Will) (1999)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 20 February 1999 at the Staatstheatre, Stuttgart (Kammertheatre)

• TR Warszawa (1999-2007)

  Regular collaborator and directing associate with TR Warszawa (Teatr Rozmaitości), Warsaw

• Hamlet (1999)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 22 October 1999 at TR Warszawa

• Sturm (The Tempest) (2000)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 17 March 2000 at the Staatstheatre, Stuttgart (Kammertheatre)

• The Music Programme (2000)

  By Roxanna Panufnik (libretto by Paul Micou)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 7 April 2000 at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw

• Don Carlos (2000)

  By Giuseppe Verdi (libretto by François-Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 22 October 2000 at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw

• Bachantki (The Bacchae) (2001)

  By Euripides
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 9 February 2001 at TR Warszawa

• Ignorant i szaleniec (The Ignorant and the Madman) (2001)

  By Paweł Mykietyn (libretto based on Thomas Bernhard’s play)
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 4 May 2001 at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw

• Bakhe (The Bacchae) (2001)

  By Euripides
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 23 July 2001 at Gradsko Dramsko kazalište Gavella, Zagreb

• Tatuowane języki (Tattooed Tongues) (2001)

  By Martjin Padding (libretto by Friso Haverkamp)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 23 September 2001 at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw

• Oczyszczeni (Cleansed) (2001)

  By Sarah Kane
  Translated by Krzysztof Warlikowski and Jacek Poniedziałek, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 15 December 2001; co-produced by the Teatr Współczesny (Wrocław), Teatr Polski (Poznań), and TR Warszawa

  Awarded: Prize for Best Foreign Performance in 2002/3 from the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique Théâtre, Musique et Danse

  Awarded: Laur Konrada Prize at the Sixth Festival of the Art of Directing ‘Interpretacje’ (‘Interpretations’) in Katowice

• Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit (In Search of Lost Time) (2002)

  By Marcel Proust
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 25 May 2002 at the Schauspiel, Bonn

• Burza (The Tempest) (2003)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 4 January 2003 at TR Warszawa

  Awarded: Złoty Yorick for the best Shakespearean performance in 2002/3 season, and the Feliks Warszawski Prize for Best Directing

• Le songe d’une nuit d’été (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) (2003)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 7 March 2003 at the Théâtre National, Nice

• Ubu Rex (2003)

  By Krzysztof Penderecki (libretto by Krzysztof Penderecki and Jerzy Jarocki)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 2 October 2003 at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw

• Dybuk (The Dybbuk) (2003)

  By Shimon Ansky/Hanna Krall
  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 6 October 2003 at TR Warszawa

• Droomsporen (Speaking in Tongues) (2004)

  By Andrew Bovell
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 1 February 2004 at Toneelgroep, Amsterdam

• Makbet (Macbeth) (2004)

  By William Shakespeare
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 14 June 2004 at the Schauspiel, Hannover

• Krum (2005)

  By Hanoch Levin
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 3 March 2005; co-produced by TR Warszawa and the Stary Teatr, Kraków

  Awarded: New York Critics’  OBIE Award for Directing, by Village Voice

• Wozzeck (2006)

  By Alban Berg (libretto based on Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 5 January 2006 at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw

• Madame de Sade (2006)

  By Yukio Mishima
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 26 February 2006 at Toneelgroep, Amsterdam

• Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigenia in Tauris) (2006)

  By Christoph Willibald Gluck (libretto by Nicolas François Guillard and François Gand-Leblanc du Roullet)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 8 June 2006 at the Opéra national de Paris, Palais Garnier

• Meyerhold Prize (2007)

  Awarded the Meyerhold Prize for Most Outstanding Achievement in World Theatre

• Anioły w Ameryce (Angels in America) (2007)

  By Tony Kushner
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 17 February 2007 at TR Warszawa
  Awarded: The Konrad Swinarski Prize for Best Theatre Director 2006/7, by the journal Teatr

  Awarded: Prize for Best Foreign Performance in 2007/8, by the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique Théâtre, Musique et Danse, France

• L’affaire Macropoulos (The Makropoulos Affair) (2007)

  By Leoš Janáček (libretto based on Karel Čapek’s play)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 27 April 2007 at the Opéra Bastille, Paris

• Eugene Onegin (2007)

  By Pyotr Tchaikovsky (libretto in verse by Konstantin Shilovsky based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 30 October 2007 at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich

• Parsifal (2008)

  By Richard Wagner
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 4 March 2008 at the Opéra Bastille, Paris

• Médée (Medea) (2008)

  By Luigi Cherubini (libretto by François-Benoît Hoffmann)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 12 April 2008 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels

• New Theatrical Realities (2008)

  Awarded the Europe Theatre Prize: New Theatrical Realities, for innovation in the art of theatre

• Founding of the Nowy Teatr (2008)

  Co-founded and became Artistic Director of the Nowy Teatr, Warsaw

• (A)pollonia (2009)

  Based on texts by Aeschylus, J. M. Coetzee, Euripides, Hanna Krall, Jonathan Littell, and others

  Adapted by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Piotr Gruszczyński, and Jacek Poniedziałek
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 16 May 2009 at the Nowy Teatr, Warsaw

  Awarded: Prize for Directing at the International Festival Boska Komedia (Divine Comedy) in Kraków

  Awarded: Golden Mask Prize for best foreign production in Russia

• Le Roi Roger (King Roger) (2009)

  By Karol Szymanowski (libretto by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 18 June 2009 at the Opéra Bastille, Paris

• Un Tramway (2010)

  Based on A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

  Adapted by Wajdi Mouawad, Piotr Gruszczyński, and Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 4 February 2010 at the Théâtre de L’Odéon, Paris

• Macbeth (2010)

  By William Shakespeare (libretto by Francesco Maria Piave)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 17 June 2010 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels

• Koniec (The End) (2010)

  Based on texts by J. M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, and Bernard-Marie Koltès

  Adapted by Krzysztof Warlikowski and Piotr Gruszczyński
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 30 September 2010 at the Nowy Teatr, Warsaw

• The Rake’s Progress (2010)

  By Igor Stravinsky (libretto by W. H. Auden, and Chester Kallman)
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 10 December 2010 at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin

• Opowieści afrykańskie według Szekspira (African Tales by Shakespeare) (2011)

  Based on plays by William Shakespeare

  Adapted by Krzysztof Warlikowski and Piotr Gruszczyński
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 5 October 2011 at the Nowy Teatr, Warsaw

  Awarded: Diagilev Award in Perm

• Poppea e Nerone (2012)

  Based on The Coronation of Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Francesco Busenello, in a new orchestration by Phillippe Boesmans
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 12 June 2012 at the Teatro Real, Madrid

• Lulu (2012)

  By Alban Berg
  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 14 October 2012 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels

• Kabaret Warszawski (Warsaw Cabaret) (2013)

  Inspired by a text by John van Druten and a film by Cameron Mitchell

  Adapted by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Piotr Gruszczyński, and Szczepan Orłowski

  Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 3 July 2013 at the Nowy Teatr, Warsaw

• Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) (2013)

  By Richard Strauss (libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal)

  Adapted and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
  Premiere: 21 November 2013 at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich

• Award (2013)

  Presented with the title Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, by the French Ambassador to Poland, Pierre Buhler