This year’s performances present a rich selection of themes and ideas that explore the human struggle with nature, the self, and others.
They include monodramas such as Drop (UAE), Pity Parade (UK), Cracks (Greece), Splinter of the Sun (India, Poland), and Maryla (Poland),
This will be topped with an honorary opening show, Between Heaven and Earth, a Polish-Egyptian collaboration directed by Zien Rashad, also a member of the festival’s high committee.
The festival’s jury includes several prominent international and Arab theatre figures: producer and professor of theatrical drama Levan Khetaguri (Georgia, jury president), as well as directors and actors Erika Moldovan (Romania), Erlita Rexhpi (Kosovo), and Majid Al-Aufi (Oman).
Earlier this month, the festival released the poster for its second edition, designed by Ali Abdel Rahman.
The poster features a statue of the 19th-century Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, located in Kraków, alongside other statues, all incorporated into the main design theme of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth.
The festival, headed by Mazen El-Gharabawy, will run from 15 to 18 May in Kraków, Poland.
Organised in cooperation with Kite Theatre, a Kraków Independent Theatre Expats company, and supported by numerous Egyptian and Polish entities, the SITFY Poland is an affiliate of Egypt-based Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth, headed by El-Gharabawy.
The festival’s high committee is formed of its founder and president, El-Gharabawy, as chairman; theatre director Engy El-Bestawy, director of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth; Monika Hess-Rashad from Poland; Marijona Beqiri from Kosovo; Edmond Zumari from Albania; Omar Al Hammadi from the UAE; and Egyptian-Polish director Zien Rashad.
SITFY Poland launched last year, staging seven monodramas between 20 and 23 April, 2025. The winners of that edition included artists from Romania, Italy, and Oman.
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