Since 2004 Zadara has directed more than thirty plays and performance art pieces at
The Wybrzeże Theatre in
Gdańsk,
Stary National Theatre in Kraków,
Współczesny Theatre in
Wrocław,
National Theatre in Warsaw,
Współczesny Theatre in
Szczecin, the Maxim Gorki Theatre in
Berlin, the HaBima National Theatre in
Tel Aviv, the
Schauspielhaus Wien and a staging of
Iannis Xenakis's opera
Oresteia at the National Opera in Warsaw. He was nominated for the
Political Passport prize in 2006 and 2007, and was awarded this prize - the Polish equivalent of the
Pulitzer Prize - in 2007. His 2007 production of
Witold Gombrowicz's
Operetta was presented in the 2009
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. In 2010, Zadara and his partner
Barbara Wysocka created the much-discussed performance piece "Anty-Edyp", in which Wysocka, then 8 months pregnant, performed a version of
Sophocles's Oedipus, while two doctors examined her heart and her unborn child's heart using USG. The images and sound from the USG created the visual and musical frame of the performance, as three musicians played the score, using the child's heartbeat as the basic rhythm. The text of was inspired by and included fragments of Deleuze and Guattari's
Anti-Oedipus. In 2011, Zadara created a theatrical installation of
Joseph Roth's novel "
Hotel Savoy" at the original Hotel Savoy in
Łódź, in the building, where Roth's novel takes place - which was then still a functioning hotel. The spectators walked through the entire seven floors of the old building and its courtyard, while scenes and music were played simultaneously, so that no spectator could ever see the whole installation. In 2013, Zadara co-founded CENTRALA, an independent organization that produces innovative art. In the following years, CENTRALA produced performances, exhibits, films and concerts. Centrala's innovative ways of production, creation, and presentation have resulted in collaborations with Warsaw's Modern Art Museum, the
Warsaw Uprising Museum, and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, among others. In 2015 with Pew Center support, Swarthmore College brought the North American premiere of Centrala's
Chopin Without Piano, created by Zadara and performed by Centrala member Barbara Wysocka, to Philadelphia, with performances at Swarthmore College and FringeArts. In 2014, Zadara began a three-year-long project at the
Teatr Polski in
Wrocław to stage the first ever full production of Adam Mickiewicz's epic drama
Dziady. This text is one of the most fundamental theatre text in Polish culture, but has never been staged in its entirety. The full version of the play was presented in February 2016, and the performance lasted 14 hours. In the 2019/2020 academic year, Zadara was appointed to the position of Cornell Distinguished Visiting Professor at
Swarthmore College to teach a course on the contemporary staging of Greek Tragedy in the Theatre and Classics Departments. On April 24, 2020, his production of
Sophocles's
Women of Trachis opened at Swarthmore - the staging was widely covered in the press, as the play was performed without an audience and without actors. ==References==