Verne - Voyages Contemporaires - Premiere!

8.10.2025 Wenensday  19:00 - Ursynowskie Centrum Kultury "Alternatywy" - Szekspir Stage

Duration of the show  60 min. Audience 12+

After the July open-air premiere of Voyages Contemporaires, we now invite you to discover its stage version – enriched with a new narrative and visual line.

Between the Earth and the Moon, between dream and fear, unfolds a journey that needs no words. It is a story about us – people lost in the rush of the world, longing for meaning, light, and closeness. In a world where there are no longer blank spots on the maps, discovery does not lose its significance, but changes direction. Today we do not travel towards unknown lands, but deep into ourselves.

Verne – Voyages Contemporaires is a tale woven from movement, imagery, and music, where traces of Verne's journeys transform into metaphors of contemporary desires. It is not an adaptation, but a journey inspired by the spirit of adventure literature – wordless, yet full of meaning. Mime theatre that does not explain, but allows you to see. And to feel.

Concept: Krzysztof Czubaszek. Direction and set design: Bartłomiej Ostapczuk. Live music: Sambor Dudziński. Costumes: Agnieszka Magiera & Hultaj Polski. Set construction: Pracownia Malinowe Drzewo. 

Cast: Anna Karbowiak, Patrycja Grzywińska, Zuzanna Ziółek, Bożena Szykowna, Bartłomiej Ostapczuk

Duration: 60 minutes

The performance was created by the Warsaw Mime Center Foundation in cooperation with Ursynów Culture Center "Alternatywy", under the patronage of the Polish Jules Verne Society. The open-air version of the project was co-financed by the City of Warsaw.

The Warsaw Mime Center Company, founded in 2013, is a group formed by actors long associated with the Warsaw Mime Center. Its productions are created in collaboration with international masters of mime. Combining the actors' skills with the imagination and experience of invited artists, the theatre aims to show how much this art form still has to offer the contemporary spectator – a spectator for whom, despite its centuries-old tradition, mime can still be a marvelous artistic discovery.

Artistic Director: Bartłomiej Ostapczuk