Ben Brantley, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Big hotels can be creepy, even when they’re not swarming with cultish conventioneers. Just think of the Overlook in the 1980 movie “The Shining,&...
Ben Brantley, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Big hotels can be creepy, even when they’re not swarming with cultish conventioneers. Just think of the Overlook in the 1980 movie “The Shining,&...
Jeremy M. Barker, CULTUREBOT
Downstage-right on Malgorzata Szczesniak’s marvelous set – which has all the tyrannical lines of a de Chirico painting, without the calming pe...
Miriam Felton-Dansky, THE VILLAGE VOICE
Towards the end of Festen—TR Warszawa’s elegant, bleak stage adaptation of the 1998Thomas Vinterberg film—the character charged with...
Frank Scheck, NEW YORK POST
‘I sense bad vibes,” someone says early on in “Festen (The Celebration),” and, boy, is she on target, as a 60th-birthday party turns into ...
Chris Companek, THEATERMANIA
Polish theater company TR Warszawa has a knack for staging productions that sear themselves into your mind. Their signature sets, barren yet strangely epic, are ...
Michael Billington, GUARDIAN
In the course of its journey from screen to stage, this celebrated Danish film has undergone a profound seachange. Thomas Vinterberg's prize-winning movie, made ...
Maryla Zielińska, THE THEATRE IN POLAND
After two successive not very well received premieres - Doctor Faustus and Prince Myshkin - Grzegorz Jarzyna, the director who made the most brilliant...
Alain Riou, LE NOUVELE OBSERVATOUR
Grzegorz Jarzyna, guru of young polish theatre, presents on stage marvelous version of Thomas Vinterberg's movie. Alain Riou saw a play before it arrived t...
Piotr Gruszczyński, TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY
The programme for the performance contains sociological studies, concerning the sexual abuse of children in Poland. However, The Celebration is also a...
Roman Pawłowski, GAZETA WYBORCZA
The latest performance of Grzegorz Jarzyna, who this time appears under the pseudonym H7, is a shocking accusation of the society entangled in a web of lies....