Teatr Academia was founded in 1993 by Marcin Jarnuszkiewicz and Roman Wozniak at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Stage Design. It brings together Academy artists, students and professors whose interests rest with the theatre and the arts. Although the theatre remained independent for several years without an official seat or sponsorship, it was able to stage
two premieres each year, organised the miniature Theatre and Performance Festival and took
part in national and foreign festivals.

Having acquired private sponsorship in January 1999, the theatre founded its official seat in Warsaw’s Praga district, the hub of the capital’s alternative scene. Karma, which is the closing piece of the company’s stage trilogy, is a play about women. Several women, from a child to a senior citizen, dance, flirt, adjust their tights, depilate their armpits, learn to be feminine and discuss
the chemistry of their gender. In the artistic layer, the play features elegant contrasts of white and black, a kitschy scene of Leda with the swan and a deceitful fashion show. A unique collection was developed for the performance, comprising of rubber tyres ‘sewn’ with metal bolts. It is the most dynamic and playful performance of Teatr Academia, and the first project to involve the theatre’s
entire staff, Academy students, professional dancers and first-time actors