Juliusz Chrząstowski has acted in over 30 extremely vivid roles at the Stary Theatre, such as daring Ram Gerszon in “The Tovianists, Kings of the Clouds”, the egotistical Henryk Zaręba in “The Gorgonowa Affair” by the Janiczak/Rubin duo and Orcio in the Demirski/Strzępka duo’s “The Undivine Comedy: I’M GONNA TELL GOD EVERYTHING”. For the latter character, daringly balanced on the borderline between pathos and parody, Chrząstowski received the prestigious Zelwerowicz Award (2015). This actor, who possesses a rich personality and inherent vis comica, has played memorable characters: the envoy of the Captain in Zadara’s “The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys”, Pijakiewicz in Barbara Wysocka’s “The Drunks” and Broniewski in Strzępka’s “The Battle of Warsaw 1920”. He has played strong, technically perfect roles in plays directed by Jan Klata. In “Trilogy”, as Onufry Zagłoba, he often stole the show from his partners, and he controlled the audience’s emotions expertly in “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, “Oresteia”, “The Secret Agent” and “The Wedding of Count Orgaz”. In Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People”, Chrząstowski and Radosław Krzyżowski created the brilliant duo of the Stockmann brothers, locked in a fundamental difference of temperaments and viewpoints: ‘The conflict between the doctor (Juliusz Chrząstowski) and his brother, the mayor (Radosław Krzyżowski), is a clash not only between points of view, but also types of people: a middle-aged hipster (seemingly sloppy in appearance, but with a great deal of effort put into his well-matched accessories) and a civil servant (…), the former changes from scene to scene, sometimes impressive in his obstinacy to declare the truth, and funny in his desire to become famous as the town’s saviour’, stated Olga Katafiasz (teatralny.pl).