MARTA GÓRNICKA

CHORUS

MOTHERS A SONG FOR WAR TIME fot. Bartek Warzecha

CONSTITUTION fot.Michał Rumas

JEDEM DAS SEINE Fot.Dawid Balzer

GRUNDGESETZ Fot.Lutz Knospe

MOTHER COURAGE WON'T REMAIN SILENT. THE CHORUS FOR WAR TIME

HYMN TO LOVE Fot.Magda Hueckel

COMMUNITY - AN APP FOR ONE PERSON Fot.Lutz Knospe

M(OTHER)COURAGE

HYMN TO LOVE Fot. Maciej Rukasz

CONSTITUTION Fot.Michał Rumas

GRUNDGESETZ Fot.Lutz Knospe

AT THE TIME WHEN UKRAINE IS CRYING OUT, we need theatre with its power of transformation. The power to remember what is most monstrous. We need practices brought by the CHORUS- community practices, healing. A theatre of new forms of solidarity. And new rituals. (Marta Górnicka for Theatre der Zeit)

MARTA GÓRNICKA RECEIVED THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE GERMANY PRIZE 2025 FOR HER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS

The choice for Górnicka as recipient of the 2025 prize was made on the basis of a shortlist proposed for voting to the members of the ITI by the jury, consisting of ITI members Nora Amin, Milena Gehrt, Maria Rößler, Lucien Strauch and Ulrike Syha. The jury’s decision states: ‘With her vision of bringing powerful […]

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23.02.2026 MOTHERS opens the LESSINGTAGE FESTIVAL IN HAMBURG WITH STANDING OVATIONS

“Our performance is about women and war. About defense mechanisms and responsibility. About our reaction to a war in Europe. About the rituals of wartime violence against women and civilians which are unchanging.” Marta Górnicka “MOTHERS A SONG FOR WARTIME, orchestrated by director Marta Górnicka, goes beyond the experience of a performance, it is a […]

06.12.2025 MOTHERS AT HELLERAU, DRESDEN – 5&6.12.2025 RECEIVED WITH STANDING OVATIONS

In August 2023, Polish director Marta Górnicka showed a preview of “MOTHERS” for the first time at the Cour du Musee Calvet in Avignon, deeply shocking the festival audience. On her return to Avignon in 2024, 6,000 spectators celebrated the performance. 21 women aged between 9 and 72 from Ukraine, Belarus and Poland unite their […]

30.11.2025 MOTHERS, STANDING OVATIONS AT MAXIM GORKI THEATER BERLIN, 30 Nov

They are survivors. They are refugees from war and persecution, witnesses to violence and destruction. They use the power of their voices to name what cannot be put into words. Their singing becomes an accusation, a plea and a warning to us and to all people in Europe. After a celebrated and shattering performance at […]

I believe that the VOICE has a great power. I believe in the power of the multilingual CHORUS of voices which acts beyond language, in spite of it, and it resists divisions and violence through the sheer co-presence of infinitely diverse bodies.