Conference of the Birds

Cre­ators: CHO­REA The­atre

Text: Ba­sed on Fa­ri­dud­din At­tar’s poem “The Con­fe­ren­ce of the Birds” and the play “The Con­fe­ren­ce of the Birds” by Pe­ter Bro­ok and Jean-Clau­de Car­ri­ère, trans­la­ted by Ma­riusz Ra­do­my­ski and Ro­bert Urbań­ski

Di­rec­tion: Łu­kasz Kos

Mu­sic: Ma­ciej Ma­cia­szek

Sta­ge de­sign, co­stu­mes: Pa­weł Wa­lic­ki

Vi­su­als, live ca­me­ra: Ka­mil Wal­la­ce Wa­le­siak

Li­gh­ting: To­masz Kru­kow­ski

So­und de­sign: Hu­bert Żu­raw­ski

Cast: Ja­nusz Adam Bie­drzyc­ki, Jo­an­na Chmie­lec­ka, Łu­kasz Kos, Mał­go­rza­ta Lip­czyń­ska, Ma­ciej Ma­cia­szek, To­masz Ro­do­wicz, Pa­weł Sma­ga­ła, Ka­mil Wal­la­ce Wa­le­siak

Po­ster: Ka­mil Re­kosz

Pho­tos: Bar­tosz Cie­cha­no­wicz

Pro­du­cers: Zo­fia Kę­dra, Anna Ma­szew­ska

Pro­duc­tion: CHO­REA The­atre

Pre­mie­re: July 11, 2026, CHOREA Theatre

Du­ra­tion: 100 mi­nu­tes

Vie­wers' age: 14+

Con­tent war­ning: Smo­ke and scent ef­fects (in­cen­se, Palo San­to, sage) are used du­ring the per­for­man­ce; if you are sen­si­ti­ve to strong smells or smo­ke, ple­ase be cau­tio­us; if you have any con­cerns, ple­ase spe­ak to a mem­ber of staff be­fo­re en­te­ring the the­atre au­di­to­rium

What ma­kes us set out on a jo­ur­ney, even tho­ugh we don’t know whe­re it will take us?

Or per­haps it’s not abo­ut the de­sti­na­tion. It’s abo­ut who we be­co­me along the way.

“Con­fe­ren­ce of the Birds” is ano­ther col­la­bo­ra­tion be­twe­en the ar­ti­sts of CHO­REA The­atre and di­rec­tor Łu­kasz Kos. This time, the cre­ators draw upon the 12th-cen­tu­ry poem by Fa­ri­dud­din At­tar, one of the most im­por­tant works of Sufi li­te­ra­tu­re. The col­li­sion of the di­rec­tor’s di­stinc­ti­ve sty­le with the uni­qu­eness of the text, com­bi­ned with CHO­REA’s me­thods and sen­si­bi­li­ty, cre­ates a uni­que ar­ti­stic qu­ali­ty achie­va­ble only thro­ugh this col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve en­co­un­ter.

The in­i­tial news of the di­sco­ve­ry of a fe­ather be­lon­ging to the my­thi­cal win­ged-king Si­morgh be­co­mes, for the pro­ta­go­ni­sts, the Birds, an im­pul­se to at­tempt a jo­ur­ney aimed at me­eting this le­gen­da­ry ru­ler.

The sto­ry, de­scri­bed as a ma­ster­pie­ce of my­sti­cal li­te­ra­tu­re, was ad­ap­ted for the­atre in the 1970s by Pe­ter Bro­ok. It is a dia­lo­gue on hu­ma­nism that trans­cends cul­tu­ral, re­li­gio­us, and hi­sto­ri­cal dif­fe­ren­ces. The mes­sa­ge ta­kes on spe­cial si­gni­fi­can­ce in to­day’s world, full of cha­os and con­flict. It is an at­tempt to in­spi­re hope for fin­ding uni­ty and sha­red va­lu­es in a stra­ti­fy­ing and po­la­ri­zing world, thro­ugh the in­di­vi­du­al trans­for­ma­tion of each and eve­ry per­son.

This is the se­cond the­atri­cal pro­duc­tion of this poem in the hi­sto­ry of Po­lish the­atre.

Premierę spektaklu "Konferencja Ptaków" dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury – państwowego funduszu celowego.

Premierę spektaklu "Konferencja Ptaków" zrealizowano w ramach zadania "Teatr w Mieście/Spotkania. Stałe działania kulturalne".

Zadanie "Teatr w Mieście/Spotkania. Stałe działania kulturalne" zrealizowano dzięki dofinansowaniu z budżetu Miasta Łodzi.