IMPACT FEST 2026 | SATURDAY · THE FULL FESTIVAL
Saturday, 26 September 2026
Saturday is the day Impact Fest becomes a small universe of its own.
You can begin your morning inside a workshop.
An hour later, you may be watching international improv.
Then an unpredictable open mic with comedians from different countries.
Then stand-up.
Then improv again.
Then participatory theatre.
Then fire.
And somehow we're still only halfway through the day.
Saturday is built for people who are curious.
Not necessarily people who already know every performer on the poster.
Come early. Leave late. Disappear for lunch. Come back. Take a risk on something you've never seen before.
The programme moves from workshops and daytime performances into a full international evening of theatre, comedy and solo shows.
SATURDAY DAY PROGRAMME
10:00–12:00 | One vs the Group — Christian Winther
A practical two-hour improv workshop exploring presence, commitment and ensemble dynamics.
Get on your feet, work with other performers and begin the festival day by participating rather than watching.
Workshop places are limited. Advance reservation required.
12:15–12:35 | Metamorphoses — URARA
A compact interdisciplinary live performance centred on transformation, movement and the expressive possibilities of the body.
Another artistic language enters the Impact Fest programme.
FREE · Registration recommended
12:50–13:50 | Omnibus
Alexander H. Heindl & Omnibus
An ensemble performance created live in front of the audience.
Characters, relationships and entire worlds emerge through improvisation, collective listening and the pleasure of not knowing what comes next.
Nothing is pre-written.
Something is created in the room with the performers and audience who happen to be there.
That's the magic.
14:05–14:50 | The Most Amazing Open Mic
International Comedians
A microphone. International comedians. Zero guarantees.
A fast, unpredictable open mic bringing together performers from different countries, backgrounds and comedy styles.
Expect new material, strange ideas, experienced comedians trying something fresh and perhaps a few jokes discovering whether they work at exactly the same moment as the audience does.
Different countries. Different perspectives. Different accents. One microphone.
Language: English
15:05–15:20 | Featured Stand-Up — Ozan Pekmezci
A compact featured comedy set bringing another international voice into Saturday afternoon.
Followed by:
15:25–15:50 | 2.0 IMPROV
Miguel Ferreira · Monika · Tetiana
Warsaw's international improv community takes the stage.
No script.
No second take.
Nowhere to hide.
Two completely different ways of making people laugh, back to back.
16:00–17:30 | re: act · FORUM THEATRE
re: act ensemble
A participatory theatre experience inspired by Forum Theatre and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.
The audience is invited to do more than watch.
Together with the performers, participants explore conflict, power, relationships and difficult social situations, testing how different choices might change what happens on stage.
The boundary between spectator and performer becomes deliberately unstable, turning the room into a shared space for reflection, intervention and possible action.
Language: English
Duration: 90 minutes
Admission: FREE · Advance registration required
18:00–18:15 | Fire Performance — Marcin Ex Styczyński
Fire, movement and physical spectacle take the festival outside.
A short live performance that takes Impact Fest beyond the conventional stage before we move into the Saturday evening programme.
FREE
A&O WARSAW WOLA · 18:30 ONWARDS
SATURDAY EVENING
18:30–19:15 | Survival Kit — Anastasia Ivanova
A 45-minute solo performance combining live storytelling, theatre and projected material.
Anastasia Ivanova opens the Saturday evening programme with a performance built around survival, memory and personal experience.
19:35–20:20 | RADU ISAC
One of the headline comedians of Impact Fest 2026.
Originally from Romania and now based in London, Radu's comedy is dark, intelligent, understated and beautifully uncomfortable.
His work has appeared on Comedy Central, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service, and he performs internationally.
If you've never seen him live, this is your chance.
20:40–21:40 | FURIOZO — Piotr Szczęsny Sikora
Award-winning Polish clown and actor Piotr Szczęsny Sikora becomes Furiozo: an aggressive yet strangely tender football hooligan in an interactive punk-rock comedy about violence, masculinity, longing and trouble.
The show won an Adelaide Fringe Best Show Award, sold out Soho Theatre and was selected among The Guardian's Top 10 Comedy Shows of 2024.
A very committed hooligan closes the Saturday stage programme.
21:40 ONWARDS | SATURDAY AFTER PARTY
Don't rush home.
After workshops, improv, stand-up, participatory theatre, fire, solo performance, headline comedy and one extremely committed hooligan, artists and audiences come together for Saturday night.
Impact Fest is also about everything that happens between artists and audiences after the lights come down.
Stay. Meet the performers. Meet the audience. Continue the night with us.
The Saturday After Party is included with same-day festival admission.
HOW TO JOIN SATURDAY
If you want the freedom to move through Saturday without choosing your entire day in advance, choose the Saturday Day Pass.
The pass gives you access to the paid Saturday festival programme, subject to event capacity and any individual reservation requirements.
Individual tickets for selected performances are also available.
Workshops, intimate performances and selected free events may require a separate advance reservation because capacity is limited.
IS THE SATURDAY AFTER PARTY INCLUDED?
Yes.
The Saturday After Party is included with same-day festival admission.
After a full day of workshops, theatre, improv, comedy, fire and international performance, you're very welcome to stay with us.
Saturday, 26 September 2026
Impact Fest 2026 · Warsaw
Perform · Create · Connect
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impactwarsaw.com/impact-fest
Południk 2.0 • Wilcza 25, 00-544 Warszawa, Województwo mazowieckie, Poland
