I founded Theatre of One Poem in October 1991 in Opole. At that time I thought that a performance based on a short literary text, at least a poem, is a good way of expression. Besides, I wished to form a kind of theatrical reality that would be one world. I managed to do that after some time.

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Frankly speaking, every artist creates one movie throughout their life, paints one picture, writes one book, dividing it into only a few chapters. This is how an individual world looks. We also form the theatre of one vision and one theatrical poetics.To be ourselves we do what concerns and fascinates us, and if it also applies to a spectator, to their thrill and emotions, if the spectator comes to the same conclusions and thoughts, we succeed. Reflections may not come at once, they may not appear during the performance, but they may arrive at your fireside or over a mug of beer. At first, each of us creates for themselves, and then we reveal the creation to the light. Sometimes the creation is very individual and egoistic. So, on the one hand, I'm fascinated by the possibility of speaking, shouting out or whispering, or sometimes dancing to the world, then, on the other hand, it leads to a question: why should I reveal myself? Nevertheless, I do what I do, as I feel that other people go through the same - the inner crucible where something rotates and frets from inside. Nobody is perfect and I can't always cope with the world and with myself, as well. Theatre is one of the means of conversation and communication with what is outside our interior.

What is characteristic of our theatre? What is our individuality based on?

It is certainly poetry expressed in form and meaning. The attempts of catching reality "in the flash of lightning", no matter whether the initial source was a poetic text ("O Janku" by J. Slowacki) or a drama text ("Faust" by L. Kolakowski, "Świadkowie" by T. Rozewicz), a painting or our own reflections. The last realizations are author's performances. We are willing to use symbols, archetypes, metaphors understood not as an illustrative theatrical sign, we break with a plot, we make our performances multifold, full of pictures, incredibly condensed with meanings.

Reflective shortening, on-stage writing, co-participation, community. We can be situated in the current of the so-called "open theatre", supposing that openness means readiness for getting inspiration from various sources. We are fascinated by the paintings from Boch, Picasso to Beksinski, music from fletnia Pana to Mozart or Vangelis. While trying to define the essence of what we do, we use a word "existence", the word that makes us think and condemns intellectual laziness. Our performances are to arise questions and reflections, not to give answers. Theatre of One Poem is for people who understand that although man desires the truth, what they find is only uncertainty.