KRYSTIAN LUPA

Three Sisters, director. Internationally renowned as one of the leading artists of our age, Krystian Lupa works on a vast theatrical canvas.  His productions are remarkable for their psychological complexity, stylistic innovation, and humanity.  His recent productions include his own adaptations of Thomas Bernhard's Limeworks; Emmanuel Kant; Extinction; and Ritter, Dene, Voss; Malte, or the Prodigal Son's Triptych inspired by Rilke; Hermann Broch's trilogy The Sleepwalkers; Dostoyevsky's Brother’s Karamazov; Bulgakov's Master and Margarita; Gorky's Lower Depths; Musil's Man Without Qualities; Nietzsche's Zarathustra; Stanislaw Lem's Solaris; and Unfinished Piece for an Actor which combines Chekhov's Seagull with Yazmina Reza's The Spanish Play.  Additionally Lupa has directed several productions for Polish television, and is a resident director at the Stary Teatr in Krakow.  He teaches directing at the National Theatre Academy in Krakow.  His published writings on the theatre include Utopia and Its Inhabitants and two volumes of his diaries, Labyrinth and Spying.  Lupa's productions have been invited to the most significant theatre festivals of Europe, and he has been recognized with every major Polish theatre award as well as the Austrian Cross of Merit and the French Order of the Fine Arts and Humanities.  In 2003the Stary Teatr mounted a retrospective festival of five of Lupa's stage productions.

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