TR Online programme "Stay at Home, Don’t Leave the Theatre"
At the very beginning of the lockdown in Europe, TR Warszawa launched the Stay at Home, Don’t Leave the Theatre. The programme of streaming of the archival recordings combined with live talks with artists and the set of online workshops for the audience. At the same time the theatre was launching projects dedicated to digital creation, based on the theatrical tools.
R.I.P Kore (dir. Katarzyna Minkowska) was the internet network-performance dedicated to social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Youtube), where actors created their super-realistic accounts of the characters who were meeting on regular streams from time to time. It was a prequel to the performance that premiered in October 2020.
Together with Katarzyna Kalwat, the director and the team of her collaborators, in co-production with Volksbuehne Berlin, TR Warszawa invited the audience to the participatory collective performance on Zoom, called “Maria Klassenberg. Home Choreographies”.
The success of the online programming led the theatre to build the online strategy for the Theatre, artistic practice and audience development, in an effort to create conditions for the long-term development, production, and reception of valuable performances online, including the live-stream platform to be launched in November with the world premiere of “2020: The Tempest” by Grzegorz Jarzyna.
TR Warszawa
The TR Warszawa theatre is one of the key locations on the Warsaw and Polish cultural map. For over 20 years, the artistic director of the theatre, Grzegorz Jarzyna, and his team have been developing new methods of artistic activity and work organisation addressing the needs of the evolving theatre art and culture audiences. The theatre offers complementary programme categories: international, new talents, field activities, and, since spring 2020, TR Online.
NATALIA DZIEDUSZYCKA
Culture manager and director of TR Warszawa since 2019. Previously, she worked for the Foundation Culture, the National Centre for Culture, and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, among others. At TR Warszawa, she and her team have carried out subsequent stages of TR Warszawa’s investment process at the Parade Square in Warsaw. She also initiated the preparation of strategic documents, i.e. the 2019-2023 TR Warszawa Team Strategy and the TR Online Strategy.
AGATA KOŁACZ
Culture manager working at TR Warszawa since 2017, where she manages a team of international projects as well as establishes and develops the theatre’s international relations. Previously, she worked for the National Audiovisual Institute, Arte Europe, and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. For years, she has cooperated with Malta Festival Poznań. At TR Warszawa, she has co-created the Stay at Home, Don’t Leave the Theatre programme and the TR Online Strategy.
Project presented during the Digital Cultures Festival:
TR Online programme Stay at Home, Don’t Leave the Theatre
