The final year acting students will get together at the turning point in their lives when one stage comes to an end and another one is about to begin. The presentation of their diploma plays on a real stage in front of their professors, colleagues and theatre buffs and critics is always a thrilling experience and a challenge. Their performance summing up four years of acting education will be a pass to the future professional career.

The Lodz Film School invites you to the Festival performances taking place on the stages of Nowy Theatre, Studyjny Theatre (which belongs to the Lodz Film School), and Akademicki Ośrodek Inicjatyw Artystycznych (Artistic Initiative Student Centre) from 14 to 20 May.

Apart from the four main Polish drama schools from Warsaw, Cracow, Wrocław and Lodz presenting their students’ diploma plays we will also host the students from those schools’ other than acting departments such as: Cracow School’s Muppet Department from Wrocław, Cracow School’s Dance Theatre Department from Bytom, and Warsaw Academy’s Muppet Department from Białystok.

Here are the plays in the Festival repertoire:

Krakow Drama Academy:
1. "Efekt" Lucy Prebble, dir. Agnieszka Glińska
2. "Kochanie, zabiłam nasze koty" Dorota Masłowska, dir. Rafał Dziwisz
3. "Prawie my" Giovanni Pierangeli & Marcin Wierzchowski, dir. Marcin Wierzchowski
4. „Stany skupienia” choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz – performed by Bytom Dance Department

Lodz Film School:
1. „Operetka” Witold Gombrowicz, dir. Waldemar Zawodziński
2. „Przebudzenie wiosny” Frank Wedekind, dir. Kuba Kowalski
3. „Monument” dir. Jagoda Szelc. Acting students diploma film

Warsaw Drama Academy
1. „Iluzje” Iwan Wyrypajew, dir. Wojciech Urbański
2. „Otello” Feridun Zaimoglu, Günter Senkel based on William Shakespeare, dir. Grażyna Kania
3. „Rewizor. Będzie wojna!” Artur Pałyga, dir. Anna Augustynowicz
4. „Odys wracaj do domu” Marcin Bartnikowski, dir. Marcin Bikowski – Białystok Muppet Department

Wrocław Branch of Krakow Drama Academy:
1. „Bahamut” Wojciech Kościelniak based on Jane Austen „Pride and Prejudice”, dir. Wojciech Kościelniak
2. „Niewina” Dea Loher, dir. Paweł Miśkiewicz
3. „Bagaż” based on „Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą”, „Traktat o manekinach” and other Brunon Schulz’ works, dir. Aleksander Maksymiak - Wrocław Muppet Department

The festival program is available at: www.festiwalszkolteatralnych.pl, and also at the Nowy Theatre, the Festival co-organizer’s website www.nowy.pl.

Ticket sale from 24 April at the Nowy Theatre (Zachodnia 93): Box office open Tue – Sat. 12:00-19:00, phone: 42 636 05 92, on-line www.bilety.nowy.pl. Tickets for the plays performed at the Nowy Theatre will be available at the box office an hour before the commencement of the play. Ticket booking: Biuro Obsługi Widzów Teatru, Mon-Fri, 10:00-16:00, phone 42 630 20 86, e-mail: bilety@nowy.pl.

The 36th Festival of Drama Schools is organized by the Lodz Film School. ( The co-organizers are: Studyjny Theatre in Lodz and Nowy Theatre in Lodz ) with the financial support of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (Culture Promotion Fund) and Lodz City Council.

Honorary Patronage of: Prof. Piotr Gliński, vice Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage; Zbigniew Rau, Lodz Province Governor; Witold Stępień, Marshal of the Lodz Region; Hanna Zdanowska, Mayor of Lodz.

Festival sponsor: PKO BP.

Partners: TOYA, Opus Film, Akademicki Ośrodek Inicjatyw Artystycznych, ZASP, Agencja Dramatu i Teatru ADiT, Łódzka Piwnica Artystyczna Przechowalnia, Hotel Stare Kino, Hotel Polonia, Hotel Savoy, Boutique Hostel, Klub 97, Serenissima.

Media coverage: RMF Classic. Media Patronage: TVP Kultura, Gazeta Wyborcza, AMS, TVP Łódź, Radio Łódź, TV Toya, Kalejdoskop, TEATR, E-teatr, Teatralny.pl, Dziennik Teatralny, Radio Żak