Cheap tickets for Theatre Day

On 23 May, Public Theatre Day will be celebrated for the first time in Poland. And those who will see a performance participating in the initiative “Ticket for 250 groszys,” pay only an equivalent of 60 euro cents for their tickets.

Why is it 250? Reporter Agnieszka Łaszczuk solves the mystery and reports on the contemporary Polish theatre scene.

“We invited all Polish public theatres to join the initiative, and almost all of them answered this invitation, so we have 100 Polish public theatres selling the special tickets,” says Prof Dariusz Kosiński, Research Director of the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw which is coordinating the initiative.

“The public theatre that was created at the end of the 18th century by Polish King Stanisław August, it was created as a tool of modernisation and […] as one of the centres of public debate. So being engaged and being critical, and proposing all the time new ways of thinking, it is a special Polish theatre tradition, so these young directors are traditional in this paradoxical sense,” the professor argues.