Graduate of the Faculty of Acting at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow /2021/

5 March 2020 – National Stary Theatre, Krakow

Most recently, in Olga Ciężkowska’s “The Indomitable Love of Eve Adams”, the actress, along with the rest of the cast, “plays characters from the heroine’s circle in an intriguing way” (Przemysław Gulda, Instagram/guldapoleca). In Anna Smolar’s “Halka” She creates the fractious character of the Bagpiper. She displays her vocal and choreographic abilities as the impulsive, ethically devoid Polly Peachum from Ersan Mondtag’s dark production of “The Threepenny Opera”. The autobiographical story with which Jurkowska opens Anna Smolar’s “Yoga” is a prelude to the drama that will play out on stage in a moment, showing different faces of pain and suffering” (Magdalena Mikrut-Majeranek, teatrologia.info).

Jurkowska made her debut at the National Stary Theatre standing in for Monika Frajczyk as the title protagonist of “Gulliver’s Travels,” directed by Paweł Miśkiewicz – a play that forecasts the collapse of our civilisation with sharp and insightful irony. The same director also cast Alicja Jurkowska for a graduating play at the Krakow Theatre Academy, “Other People,” based on the book by Dorota Masłowska, which brutally skewered the reality around us. The actor also made a brilliant showing in the experimental “Tempest” by Grzegorz Jarzyna, a dystopian vision of the world after an environmental catastrophe (AST).

She made her professional stage debut in “Hamlet” directed by Krzysztof Jasiński at Krakow’s STU Theatre, in the role of Ophelia, of which one critic wrote: “Ophelia remains the sweet girl, though the sweetness eventually becomes ghastly. The innocence is destroyed by the reality she must face” (Katarzyna Dreszer, Teatralia).

In the same theatre, and in a play by the same director, we had the chance to admire her work as Klara in a staging of Aleksander Fredro’s “Revenge” – here the actor broke down the stereotype of the fragile and inexperienced maiden to reveal a self-aware young woman, able to play some sophisticated games with Wacław, and in “Blue Shrimps,” a mini-musical based on a script by Jacek Cygan. The actress received acclaim for her role in this latter production: “Not only for her splendid vocals (…), but also for her vocal interpretation of the lyrics, which harmonised well with the emotional content and was spiced with the perfect dose of humour” (Iwona Pięta, Dziennik Teatralny).