Directing – Dominika Knapik

VERY VERY HAMLET

2026 VERY VERY HAMLET Since time immemorial, hundreds, thousands and millions of bodies have embodied the iconic figure of Hamlet. Each successive incarnation leaves its mark, but also dilutes the original. ‘Very Very Hamlet’ is a gothic-trash time capsule in which Hamlet’s body undergoes a performative autopsy. In the classic “Hamlet”, corpses pile up thick […]

VERY IBSEN

2025 VERY IBSEN A black comedy with elements of Scandinavian horror. Characters drawn from the universe of the iconic Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen come together following the death of their father. These are the classic figures of family drama: mother, daughter, son, wife, husband. The starting point for the production is not the author’s specific […]

VERY CHEAP

2024 VERY CHEAP This is the third and final part of the ‘Very’ trilogy, following ‘Very Funny’ and ‘Very Sad’. A theatrical cabaret treatise on the paradoxes of capitalism and the price of art, in which freelance artists don the masks of Shakespearean – and other – sex workers. Both art and sex work, despite […]

VERY SAD

2024 VERY SAD If, once you’re in your thirties or forties, you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, it means you’re not alive. We may be more or less healthy, but year after year, each of us at a different pace, we experience the passage of time first-hand every single day. We live […]

Very funny

2023 Very funny VERY FUNNY Fat and Dumb, i.e. Patrycja Kowańska and Dominika Knapik, creative artists working in theatres as directors, choreographers and dramaturges, place themselves on the stage. They explore the dynamic of the duo through the prism of their own bodies while to the emplois of contemporary freelance artists they try on the […]

HOTEL H.****

2023 HOTEL H.**** The action takes place in a hotel – an (un-)temporary, ephemeral and crime-prone place. Into this mysterious space the authors write the convention of a detective story, subjecting the motif of a woman-victim to a perverse analysis. “Hotel H.****” is a performance inspired by, among others, the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, the […]

PENTHESILEA. Reconstruction the body of the Amazons

2023 Penthesilea. Reconstructing the Body of the Amazons ‘Penthesilea. Reconstructing the Body of the Amazons‘ is a performative installation project in which the mythical story of the titular queen is juxtaposed with the condition of those affected by breast cancer. The story of Penthesilea tells of the mad love the main character had for the […]

Valeska Valeska Valeska Valeska

2022 VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA. In this performance four dancers invite the audience to visit a performative installation. It’s a space combining cabaret, circus, kinder ball and modern art exhibition. The starting point for this piece is the biography and works of Valeska Gert. Her peculiar artistic practice that was detached […]