With Ewa Wójciak Roman Kurkiewicz will talk
📅 February 16, 2026, 7:00 PM
📍 New Theatre Foyer / Nowa Księgarnia
🎫 Free admission
New book: "More Than Theatre" — Ewa Wójciak, Miejskie Posnania Publishing
"More Than Theatre" is the autobiography of Ewa Wójciak — an artist, rebel, anti‑communist activist during the PRL, and a member of the Theatre of the Eighth Day. Theatre filled her whole life, and the people with whom she created it became her most important companions. Through successive parts of the book we follow Ewa Wójciak's path — from childhood to maturity, from Poznań through Mexico, Italy, Moscow to Borje, where she currently lives. Regardless of the political period, she defended the truth, critically observed reality, did not yield to social pressure, spoke her mind loudly, and lived according to her convictions. "More Than Theatre" is also the story of the Theatre of the Eighth Day told from the perspective of someone active in it from the 1970s to the present day. The book proves that the Theatre from the beginning was not only an artistic group, but a team of people with similar ideals who fought together through art, traveled, befriended and loved one another. "More Than Theatre" is also documentation of a changing historical situation and evidence that in this changing world one can remain oneself.
- Ewa Wójciak (born 1951) — Polish anti‑communist activist during the PRL, actress and theatre director, director of the Theatre of the Eighth Day in Poznań from 2000 to 2014. Graduate of Polish philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Associated with the Poznań Theatre of the Eighth Day since the 1970s. During the PRL she was surveilled and the subject of operational investigation. In 1981, during the unveiling in Poznań of the Monument to the Victims of June 1956, she recited Zbigniew Herbert's poem "The Message of Mr. Cogito" before a crowd of 100,000. During martial law she performed with the theatre in illegal performances. In 2000 she became director of the Theatre of the Eighth Day. She was also the author of the theatre's texts and program manifestos.
- Roman Kurkiewicz (born 1962) — journalist and publicist. He has collaborated with many media outlets, including "Gazeta Wyborcza", TVP, and TVN. He served as deputy head of the social affairs department at "Newsweek Polska" and as editor‑in‑chief of "Przekrój". On Radio TOK FM he hosted programs: "Pod tytułem", "Kurkiewy" and "Mówi się"; on Radio dla Ciebie he hosted "Pod Tytułami". He currently cooperates with the weekly "Przegląd". Author of the books "Klapsy polskie" (2009) and "Lewomyślnie" (2011). He is a journalism lecturer at Collegium Civitas.
Illustration for the series: Jarosław Danilenko
