In the 2015/2016 anniversary season, National Theatre in Warsaw stages Forefathers’ Eve by Adam Mickiewicz. The performance directed by Eimuntas Nekrošius with Paweł Szymański’s music will be premiered on March 10, 2016.

Forefathers' Eve is a poetic drama written by 19th-century Polish poet. The title of the drama, considered one of the greateast works of European Romanticism, refers to an ancient Slavic and Lithuanian ceremony commemorating the dead.

This time the main themes that include spirituality, power of rite, sense of community and tragedy of the individual, as well as national and existantial issues, has been interpreted by Lithuanian director Eimuntas Nekrošius. Born in 1952, he graduated from the Lunacharski Institute of Theatre Art in Moscow in 1978. He worked at the State Youth Theatre in Vilnius, Kaunas Drama Theatre, and the Lithuanian International Theatre Festival (LIFE). Since 1998 Nekrosius has been working as the artistic director of Meno fortas theatre studio. He is the recipient of many prestigious national and international awards, such as Lithuanian Theatre Union Prize (1994, 1998), Art Prize of the International Baltic Assembly (1994), Golden Mask Prize (1997, 1999 and 2004), International K. Stanislavsky Fund Premium (2001), award granted by the Italian Critics Association (2007) and UBU Prize (2008). In 2013 he directed Paweł Szymański’s opera Qudsja Zaher, which was staged at the Teatr Wielki-National Opera in Warsaw.

Tickets available on-line at: www.narodowy.pl

Next performances will be held on March 11-13, April 16-17 and 19-20, 2016.