Więźniowie teatru | Anna Chodakowska

At the second meeting in the "Prisoners of the Theatre" series, Michał Smolis spoke with Anna Chodakowska, an actress at the National Theatre in Warsaw. Anna Chodakowska A stage, film, and television actress. In 1973, she graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw (formerly the State Drama School) and joined the National Theatre. Ten years later, she became a full-time actress at the Studio Theatre, also collaborating with other Warsaw theatres: Stara Prochownia, Scena Prezentacje, Targówek, Wola, the Poza Video Theatre, Kamienica, and the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Lublin. She has performed in productions by many renowned directors, including Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Jerzy Grzegorzewski, Ewa Bułhak, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Antoni Libera, Jarosław Kilian, Mariusz Treliński, Maciej Prus, Michał Zadara, and Maja Kleczewska. She has won numerous awards, including the Acting Award at the 13th Kalisz Theatre Meetings for the title role in Sophocles' "Antigone" (1973) and the Rector's Award of the State Drama School (1975). She received the Golden Screen Award for her roles in the films "Justyna" and "Dorota" and in the television play "Kartoteka" by Różewicz (1980), the Polish Recordings Award at the Wrocław Stage Song Festival (1984), the Alfred Smoczyk Award. She received the Lidia Zamkow and Leszek Herdegen Award at the 7th Wrocław Single Actor Theatre Festival for her performance of "The Wandering Mass" based on Stachura (1984), the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2005), the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2013), and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2017). She is currently back at the National Theatre, where she appears in, among others, "Three Sisters," directed by Jan Englert, and "Tales from the Vienna Woods," directed by Małgorzata Bogajewska. ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ "Prisoners of the Theatre" is a new series at the Theatre Institute. It is a continuation of the previous series of conversations with the doyens of the Polish theatre scene ("My Story") and creators of the middle generation of Polish theatre ("Beautiful forty-year-olds"). This time, the protagonists of the meetings will be artists who are not assigned to any generational group, but who are all united by the "addiction that theater can be," in which they have achieved and continue to achieve success. We will examine the meanderings of their careers, the relationships between them and directors, and those within theatre companies. We will also discuss creative processes and working on a role, the tradition of acting and its current state. Meetings will be held once a month, and the conversations will be accompanied by excerpts from recordings of performances and statements from collaborators, guests, and guests.