Recreating the Reduta:
Pastorałka

The premiere of Leon Schiller's Pastorałka at the Reduta Theatre on 23 December 1922, staged by the playwright himself and designed by Wincenty Drabik, turned out to be one of the most beautiful theatre events in interwar Poland. Years later Schiller himself said that 'the tone achieved by the Reduta team when staging Pastorałka was something we have never managed to match,' while Maria Dąbrowska wrote in her Journal that the premiere was the most intense theatrical experience she's had in her whole life. 

The opening night performance went down in theatre history as a strike of brilliance as regards the script, directing, and acting. The show, which was – in a way – a reconstruction of a lost Polish folk Christmas performance – featured Stefan Jaracz (Adam in Paradise), Józef Poremba (Korydon in the Pastoral Act), Zofia Mysłakowska (Holy Mother in Bethlehem), and Zygmunt Chmielewski (Herod). In just there years, Pastorałka will have been present on Polish stages for a hundred years.

On 19 December 2019, at 5 p.m., Schiller's play will be read by Warsaw-based actors as part of Recreating the Reduta of the Theatre Museum. Jarosław Kilian directs. 

Tickets priced at 1 Polish zloty are available at the Teatr Wielki box office.

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