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M A G A P A R – auteur theater – theater of one Creator –

The Magapar Theater operates at the Municipal Cultural Center in Lubaczów. The cast includes young people aged 15-18. The theater has been operating since 1983.

Magapar is a visual and physical theater, without words. Movement, light, and music are its artistic foundations.

The founder and creator of the Magapar Theater is Barbara Thieme – director, set designer, choreographer, screenwriter, lighting designer,  author of plan of music quotes and operateur of light and music.

Barbara Thieme owns all copyrights to the Magapar Theater and its productions.

The theater participates in national and international theater festivals. To date, Magapar has performed in Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice, Poznań, Lublin, Kielce, Rzeszów, Olsztyn, Przemyśl, Zbąszyń, Bydgoszcz, Jarosław, Gdynia, and her hometown of Lubaczów. Barbara Thieme has presented her productions at international theater festivals in Switzerland, France (twice), Denmark, England (Edinburgh International Fringe Festival), Austria (twice), Germany, Slovakia, Canada, Turkey, the USA (New York International Fringe Festival, International Theater Festival – in Florida), Tunisia, Finland, Greece, and has also performed as a guest in Ukraine, Hungary, Italy, and Portugal.

She is a scholarship holder of the Janineum Institute of Culture and Science in Austria.

Cardinal Marian Jaworski was a great friend of Magapar, thanks to whom the theater visited Italy at the special invitation of the Vatican. Barbara Thieme has received numerous awards, distinctions, diplomas, and honors, including two Minister of Culture and National Heritage Awards, the Minister of National Education Award, the Polcul Foundation Award, three Marshal of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship Awards, and distinctions in the national Instructor of the Year competition.

The Magapar ensemble received international awards at the Florida Festival: for Outstanding Music and Sound, Best Youth Ensemble, Best Production Premiere, and Outstanding Visualization.

The Magapar Theatre is been featured in national and international press, including „Gazeta Wyborcza,” „Scena,” „Życie Podkarpackie,” „New York Experience,” „Herald Tribune,” „Diario de Coimbra,” and „Le Choix.” She also participates in radio and television programs.

Information about Magapar  (among others )  was seminars, including: at Oregon State University, Connecticut Wesleyan University, New York University, and in Zagreb, Toronto, Santiago, and Mexico City.

Barbara Thieme is a graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin, a postgraduate student of film and theater studies at the Jagiellonian University, and the author of press articles and the brochure „Magapar.”