Paula Kukla

Diploma Work: Ubu Rex
Opera by Krzysztof Penderecki after Alfred Jarry
Staging, set and costumes, 2018

Award “Cristal Cube”, 1st Award in the International Student Competition, International Stage Design Students’ Work Exchange (ISDSWE), Beijing International Biennale 2018

Set against the post-apocalyptic backdrop of a planet covered in a thick layer of rubbish (“In Poland, or Nowhere”), the story sees a grotesque yet totalitarian dictator come to power and impose absurd and brutal measures, leading to war and the world’s collapse.