The subsequent dramatic and shattering outdoor performance was Carmen Funebre (First version - 1993, second version - 1994), which told the story of contemporary exiles. Before preparing the second version, the group members talked to refugees from former Yugoslavia.
The spectacle was their reaction and response to the ongoing war and ethnic and religious conflicts.
Most frightening - wrote The Guardian's reviewer - is the relentless pace, giving the performance an atmosphere of bessoted violence, fear and helplessness (August 28, 1995).
The performance Not All Are of Us (1997) was inspired by press reports about a church in Bieszczady and a Gniezno cathedral being plundered. It entwines issues of profanation and sacrilege. The thieves steal a figure of crucified Christ, meanwhile their getaway turns into a modern Golgotha. The Travel Bureau Theatre, beginning with Giordano, developed their spectacles with fire, luminous effects, actors moving on stilts, reffering to the mystery tradition.
The show Millennium Mysteries(2000), prepared in collaboration with the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, was an attempt to recreate the structure of the medieval mystery. The scenario was based on biblical texts, medieval mystery texts from the Coventry county and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's story about the Grand Inquisitor- which Szkotak often recurred to. Grand Inquisitor's monologue from The Brothers Karamazov was one of the main inspirations, also previously used in Giordano.
The script to grotesque spectacle Drink vinegar, gentlemen (1998) was based on the work of pre-war Russian avantgardist, Daniel Charms (poetry). This time the Poznań group invoked irony and perceived reality from a certain distance. However, the inspiration for Moonsailors (1999) were George Mélies's experimental fantasy motion pictures and classical images by Stanley Kubrick. The story about an expedition to the moon in 1899 revolves around the loneliness and fears of a man fascinated by technology. Exploring new worlds, traveling to the moon basically refers to our earthly existence. It also contains reflections on time and space converged in the microcosm- the human.
The poetic power of Moonsailors is comparable with Giordano, which began the splendor of the Travel Bureau a few years ago, wrote Piotr Gruszczyński. The streets do not use conventional means of theatrical expression, so the emotions that it gives to the audience are difficult to describe and the qualifications, elusive as stardust, surely would be taken by handfuls. The Travel Bureau has a great ability to ennoble statements, which in the mouth of columnists become incredibly banal, but in the hands of those who play with glass beads they become so complicated, that they can no longer control the emotions of the huge street cluster.
- Tygodnik Powszechny, June 25, 1999.
Manuscript by Alfonso van Worden the Travel Bureau's performance in 2002 was based on an eighteenth-century novel by Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. The actual and inner journey of the main character becomes a parable about spiritual maturity and the spiritual struggle with destiny.
Paweł Szkotak (...), wrote Jacek Sieradzki, does not stage Potocki's 'story within story' plot, he only recalls its images, placing them in the tarot symbolism. Alfonso van Worden with the faithful Moskit alongside, wade through the world of apparitions and illusions, which are beautiful and funny at the same time, on a wonderful two-headed horse, which, instead of stirrups has cycling gear pedals. He (Szkotak) exserts with the whole impressive machinery of professional street theater in a fantasy world of adventures, battles and fights (...) A beautiful spectacle, incisive, clear as crystal - and wise.
- Polityka, 2001, No. 28.
In 2003 the group created a bitter-humorous performance based on the rule of contrast, entitled Świnopolis / Pigs, referring to George Orwell's prose.
The spectacle is short, clear and light, as opposed to the seriousness of the matter it presents, giving a very strong effect.
- Piotr Gruszczyński, Tygodnik Powszechny, July, 2003.
Indeed, Pigs is a novel about the desire of freedom, rebellion, and eventually slaughter and destruction.
Szkotak wants the street theater not only to tell wonderful stories, elicit emotions. Each of his performances carries out a concrete, bitter message garnished in a sauce of irony, summarizes Łukasz Drewniak. 'Pigs': All the rebels end up the same way - disappointed, deceived, betrayed. 'Moonsailors': we do not have what to look for on other planets, if we did not yet solve our problems on earth. 'Manuscript by Alfonso van Worden': sleep and madness are the two faces of death; a man will never escape from it.
- Przekrój, 2003, No. 36.