Teatr Komuna

Teatr Komuna is home to Komuna Warszawa, an independent avant-garde theatre company. Their mission is to provide grassroots support for all manner of creative work, especially theatre, broadly understood as an open space for various cultural disciplines to mingle and interpenetrate. It's located in a former school building in the very center of Warsaw, which houses its stage in the school's sports hall.

Besides theatrical productions, the venue often plays host to many other forms of art, including film screenings at Warsaw's annual Docs Against Gravity festival, and artists playing non-mainstream music.

PpW organized their "Miasto Bezprawia" show as part of two days that celebrated sport as an art. The concept was inspired by Roland Barthes, French essayist and philosopher, known for analysing popular culture.

“In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow, the gesture severs every parasitical meaning and ceremonially presents the public with a pure and full signification, three dimensional, like Nature. Such emphasis is nothing but the popular and ancestral image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is enacted by wrestling, then, is an ideal intelligence of things, a euphoria of humanity, raised for a while out of the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and installed in a panoramic vision of a univocal Nature, in which signs finally correspond to causes without obstacle, without evasion, and without contradiction.”

— Roland Barthes, Mythologies (1957)

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Events

2025

2024
  • Teatr Komuna in April 2024, view from the Emilii Plater street.
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