Narodowy Stary Teatr imienia Heleny Modrzejewskiej
The Narodowy Stary Teatr imienia Heleny Modrzejewskiej matters because it is not just a playhouse in Kraków—it is one of Poland’s oldest public stages, first opened in 1781 and later honoured with the name of Shakespearean actress Helena Modrzejewska. On 17 October 1781, Kraków city authorities gave actor Mateusz Witkowski permission to perform comedy, on the condition that he paid fifty Polish zloty a month to the municipal treasury. The theatre’s permanent home came in 1798, when Jacek Kluszewski—then starosta of Brzeg—converted two of his own buildings at the corner of Szczepański Square and Jagiellonian Street. In the modern era, Krystyna Meissner became director in 1997, and left the following year at the request of the actors. Beneath the stage, the building’s 13th-century cellars became the MICET Interactive Museum / Theatre Education Centre in 2016, turning an older kind of space into a new kind of performance education.
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