Date: May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026
Location: Poland

Close-up of a richly textured textile composition made of layered fabric pieces in deep reds, golds, blues, and purples. The surface features intricate embroidery, stitching, and varied materials, creating an abstract, patchwork-like design with visible seams, folds, and decorative patterns. — Intro, Theater Klucz, ph. Michal Luczak

Accessibility

Short spoken text translated into Polish Sign Language
Polish audio description
Some scenes in the performance feature louder music
Some scenes in the performance take place in semi-darkness
Some scenes in the performance feature more intense, changing lighting

About the show

You are entering a world where reality intertwines with imagination, and logic gives way to absurdity. Klucz Theatre invite you to participate in a creative process in which both the performance and the artists are made. In a space where they can express themselves on their own terms, create art in accordance with their own experiences and sensibilities.

Every movement, breath, sound, word and element of costume is part of a larger puzzle whose meaning may elude you. Not everything will be obvious, not everything will have its immediate explanation. Still, but you will eventually see that curious, absurd theatrical puzzle solved.

The artists of Klucz Theatre are fully fledged creators of Intro; they do not play roles “scripted” by someone else, but construct their own stage presence, affirming their own existence and experiences. These are their stories, their visions, their courage to overcome boundaries, both physical and those that exist only in our heads.

Intro is not just a performance—it is a manifesto of courage, creativity and the need for expression. Music, body, chaos and order—all this makes up an experience that may surprise, amuse, confuse and perhaps even change you.

Let yourself be carried away. Let yourself get lost. Only to find yourself afterwards.

Credits

direction, set design, musical arrangement: Janusz Orlik
choreography: Janusz Orlik with the Klucz Theatre company
assistant director, therapeutic supervision: Antek Kurjata
featuring: Mariusz Józefiak, Jarosław Kubiak, Antek Kurjata, Bartosz Pawłowski, Lidia Piskorska, Piotr Roszak, Karol Solski, Magdalena Szalbierz, Arkadiusz Żmijewski
costumes: Agnieszka Ostrowska
lighting design: Arkadiusz Kuczyński, Janusz Orlik
Polish Sign Language interpreter: Karina Akseńczuk
audio description: Marcin Głowiński
production: ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań

duration: 60′

The performance produced by ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań as part of the Europe Beyond Access project, thanks to a grant under the Creative Europe Programme.