Karolina Bugajak is a theater critic from Poland, currently living in Ljubljana. She studied culture and contemporary art at the University of Lodz. The title of her master's thesis was "Theatricality and Exaggeration. Camp aesthetics as a strategy for creating new identities in the plays of Grzegorz Jaremko". Her main theatrical interests include topics such as institutional criticism, the representation of marginalized groups in plays, and most recently the theater of the former Yugoslav states.
Polish director Michał Borczuch talks to Karolina Bugajak about his production of The Argonauts based on the book by Maggie Nelson, putting queer stories on stage and the differences between the Polish and Slovenian theatre scenes.
Director Boris Nikitin’s layered exploration of truth, faith and theatre at the Mladinsko Theatre is half sermon, half TEDtalk
