The productions have been variously described as ‘music theatre’, ‘ethno-oratorio’ and ‘allegorical song theatre’. The origins of each performance are firmly rooted in music and this is not merely an aesthetic choice but rather a reflection of Artistic Director, Włodzimierz Staniewski’s deeply held belief that musicality is “a key which opens heart and soul” thus enabling a profound relationship with its instigator. The theatrical source for musicality within Staniewski’s work has been found in a “new, natural environment of theatre rooted in life”. It was in Eastern Poland that Staniewski recognised the “natural phenomena” that he valued so highly. “These concern the human being in nature – something that alarms us, alarms our senses, alarms our perception.”