"We would like to be a theatre in a modern form. A municipal organisation but with limited bureaucracy. Without a permanent company. We would invite other theatres to cooperate and we would help them," says Marcin Bartnikowski, co-founder of the Doomsday Company.

Monika Żmijewska: The Doomsday Company has just returned with an award from the Warsaw festival. Another one this year. The audiences adore you. Marcin Bartnikowski* [in the photograph]: We can't complain. The award which we received at the Warsaw festival entitled "A puppet is also a human being" for the "Biting" show was in fact the Audience Award. What's interesting, the audience at this festival clearly really liked the Białystok companies - we received the award jointly with the Białystok Puppet Theatre for their production "The pole". Last year the audience also awarded the company a prize and, indirectly also the BPT - for "Baldanders" [the independent actors prepared the show making use of the hospitality of the Puppet Theatre - editor]. Then it was a double award because it was from the public and from the jury. We'll see what happens next year because we will certainly be at the festival. The Audience Award is after all an invitation on spec for the next edition of the fe