Stefan Jaracz Theatre

The theatre continued to perform national drama, including Adam Mickiewicz's The Forefather's Eve, Juliusz Słowacki's Fantazy, The Silver Dream of Salome and Samuel Zborowski and Zygmunt Krasiński's Irydion.

But it was thanks to the works of Leon Schiller, who was persistent in forming his political theatre manifestos, that Łódź continued to be noticed on Poland's theatrical map.

[2] His most prominent performances of the period were Jaroslav Hašekś The Good Soldier Švejk, Friedrich Wolf's Cyankali, Sergei Tretyakov's Roar China!, Zygmunt Krasiński The Un-Divine Comedy and Juliusz Słowacki's Kordian.

The most distinguished ones were Wojciech Bogusławski's Krakovians and Highlanders, Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Jan Drda's Playing with the Devil and the Song Stall.

In 1961 returned to his former position and remained the theatre's director till 1971, favoring political plays in his repertoire: Nikolai Pogodin's The third: Pathetic, Bertolt Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Albert Camus' Caligula.

Alongside this line Żukowski commenced a cycle entitled Contemporary Classics inaugurated with Jean Giraudoux's Ondine and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.

In the midst of the 1960s Jerzy Grzegorzewski began cooperating with the theatre and directed Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Stanisław Wyspiański The Wedding, Sophocles' Antigone, Jean Genet's The Balcony and Witkacy's The Shoemakers.

The first performances included Eric Westphal's Those Clouds of Yours, Ted Whitehead's Alpha Beta, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and David Storey's Home.

Amongst the notable premieres of his directorship are to be named Witold Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantic, Henryk Rzewuski's The Memoirs of Soplica, Tadeusz Słobodzianek's Citizen Pekosiewicz (all directed by Mikolaj Grabowski), Aleksander Fredro's Mr. Jovial (dir.

by Maciej Prus) alongside of Hussakowski's own works - Bolesław Leśmian's Savagery of Posthumous Habits, August Strindberg's Easter and Eugène Scribe's and Ernest Legouvé's Adrienne Lecouvreur.

His works include Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina, Georg Büchner's, Woyzeck, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Friedrich Schiller's Intrigue and Love, Nijinsky (a solo play based on the life of danseur and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky) and Witold Gombrowicz The Marriage.