Teatr Łaźnia Nowa
Łaźnia Nowa Theatre is Kraków’s newest dramatic theatre, founded in 2005, and it carries its name like a map of cultural change. Long before it opened here, Łaźnia Theatre operated in Kazimierz, in what had been Kraków’s former Jewish district. There, the performances were originally held in a cellar used as a Jewish mikvah, which is why “łaźnia” — meaning a public bath in Polish — became part of its identity. When the theatre moved to Nowa Huta, literally “New Steelworks,” the word “Nowa” was added to mark the new start. The building itself is post-industrial: the theatre works in the halls of a former technical school, set within a district planned from the ground up in the 1950s under communist policy tied to Socialist realism. …
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