Each year, 27th March is celebrated as World Theare Day. This was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre institute (ITI) and it has been customary each year for an outstanding theatre personality to deliver a message. This year, prominent Polish theatre director Krzysztof Warlikowski was invited to speak.

Warlikowski begins his speech by saying "The true masters of the theater are most easily found far from the stage. And they generally have no interest in theater as a machine for replicating conventions and reproducing clichés. They search out the pulsing source, the living currents that tend to bypass performance halls and the throngs of people bent on copying some world or another."

Click here to read the full message.