The theatre was originally located in a cellar which used to serve as a Jewish mikvah[1], hence the name łaźnia (public bath in Polish).

The creators of the theatre assert that all art conveys a positive message, resulting from the very act of creation.

District of Nowa Huta, built as a satellite industrial town by the communist government, always used to evoke strong emotions.

Planned as a huge centre of heavy industry, Nowa Huta was to become also an ideal town for the communist propaganda.

Once one of Pope John Paul II's favorite places and the heart of the Solidarity resistance movement, Nowa Huta witnessed the downfall of its industrial prominence and became stereotyped by mass media in a negative fashion.