"The actors of the Doomsday Company are determined to promote alternative theatre in Białystok. It turns out that their vision has sense and that they have talent. Tomorrow they will perform their most famous play, "Baldanders" (in the photograph), in Warsaw's National Theatre," writes Monika Żmijewska in "Gazeta Wyborcza - Białystok".

Just two years ago only people in Białystok were talking about them. A group of graduates of the Theatrical Academy in Białystok organised a festival, "Białysztuk". It included a reading of a modern Polish play - something which had never been done in Białystok before. The festival has had successive editions and the actors and directors of the company founded the SPA [Stowarzyszenie Promocji Artystycznej - Artistic Promotion Society] in order to simplify the procedure of applying for money from various institutions. They do not have their own seat so they rehearse their shows in the rooms of friendly institutions and then perform them in Poland and abroad. They break up into smaller groups and prepare intimate performances which are easy to transport. Thanks to this, they are able to prepare more productions, the shows are cheaper to produce and theatres more eagerly invite them within the framework of their OFF stages. So the Białystok SPA artists can be seen under the banner of