In 1801, Wojciech Bogusławski created a drama theater in Kalisz, which in 1936 took the name of the founder. The first theater building since 1801 with an auditorium for 500 people was wooden and survived 15 years. Another building burned down in April 1858, and the next neo-Renaissance building was burned by the Germans in the summer of 1914 at the beginning of the First World War. The present building was built in 1920-1936. Since 1960, the Theater. Boguslavsky organizes annually the Kalisz Theater Meetings (Polish KST, Kaliskie Spotkania Teatralne) - a competition and festival of acting art. The most outstanding premiere performances of recent seasons are invited to the competition, which are distinguished by acting incarnations that are highly recognized by Polish critics. The theater opened in 1936 in a building designed by Czesław Przybylski. The name was given to the theater in memory of the activities of Wojciech Bogusławski in Kalisz, who performed here with his ensemble in 1800–1805, 1808–1811, as well as in 1815 and 1823. Kalisz's first stage director was production designer and director Ivo Gall. At that time, Tadeusz Rittner, Gabriela Zapolska, Jerzy Szaniowski, Wlodzimierz Perzhinsky played in the Polish dramaturgy. The repertoire also includes many comedies. Gall is exhibited here, among others KRAKOWIAKOV AND GRALY by Wojciech Boguslawski (1937) and together with Galina Gallova Pastoralka Leon Schiller (1937). Gall soon resigned and was in charge of Marian Lenk for the last pre-war season.

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Live theatre. 1920s building is very severe, the auditorium quite small in contrast to the large stage.

I have been in this theatre 3 times and it is one of my top 10 theatres in Poland.

Great theatre with divers offer of plays and performances

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