A History Of Polish Theatre

Author : Katarzyna Fazan,Michal Kobialka,Bryce Lease
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : DRAMA
ISBN : 110870087X

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A History of Polish Theatre by Katarzyna Fazan,Michal Kobialka,Bryce Lease Pdf

"There is no such thing as one Polish culture. Even understood in the most broad and simple sense, that is, as a collection of all the cultural achievements made by Poles together, one immediately faces problems with understanding the concepts of 'Polishness' and 'cultural achievement' themselves. The historical, geographical, legal, ethnic, religious, and linguistic changes - and differences - create such a diversity that it is impossible to find one commonality through which one homogeneous sense or meaning can be teased out. Even though schooling - for example - reproduces such simplifying, patriotic models, it does not mean they translate into a consistent interpretation. Lastly, every narrative within cultural studies reveals and names as much as it covers and conceals; this is because it cannot be constructed without emphasizing certain facts while silencing others. The 'one culture', then, breaks up into a multitude of cultures. The monologue of the centrally-defined discourse of Polishness passes into a polyphony of peripheries, into a dialogue of subcultures of borderlands, into a chorus of those who are to be silenced by the homogeneous centre"--

Author : Katarzyna Fazan,Michal Kobialka,Bryce Lease
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 110847649X

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A History of Polish Theatre by Katarzyna Fazan,Michal Kobialka,Bryce Lease Pdf

Poland is celebrated internationally for its rich and varied performance traditions and theatre histories. This groundbreaking volume is the first in English to engage with these topics across an ambitious scope, incorporating Staropolska, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Enlightenment and Romanticism within its broad ambit. The book also discusses theatre cultures under socialism, the emergence of canonical practitioners and training methods, the development of dramaturgical forms and stage aesthetics and the political transformations attending the ends of the First and Second World Wars. Subjects of far-reaching transnational attention such as Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor are contextualised alongside theatre makers and practices that have gone largely unrecognized by international readers, while the participation of ethnic minorities in the production of national culture is given fresh attention. The essays in this collection theorise broad historical trends, movements, and case studies that extend the discursive limits of Polish national and cultural identity.

Author : Kazimierz Braun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0773497218

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A Concise History of Polish Theater from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries by Kazimierz Braun Pdf

Author : Paul Allain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9057021056

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Gardzienice by Paul Allain Pdf

The author gives a detailed study of the Gardzienice Theatre Association. Analysing their sung performances, strenuous physical and vocal training, and anthropological fieldwork amongst marginalized European minorities.

Author : Kazimierz Braun
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015037466367

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A History of Polish Theater, 1939-1989 by Kazimierz Braun Pdf

This work explores Polish theater within the context of the political predicament of the country, which was conquered and divided by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (1939-1945) and then ruled by the Soviets' imposed Communist regime (1945-1989). Braun examines theatrical events, describes productions, and portrays artists from aesthetic, cultural, and political viewpoints with a scholarly and impartial perspective. This comprehensive introduction, the first of its kind in English, includes brief overviews of the history of Poland and Polish theater, clear discussions of major theatrical developments and the facets of theatrical life in Poland, and 26 detailed profiles of the leading theater artists of the period. The book is supplemented with a bibliography of sources in English and Polish, and indexes of names and plays (with titles in both English and Polish).

Author : Tamara Trojanowska,Joanna Nizynska,Przemyslaw Czaplinski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442622524

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Being Poland by Tamara Trojanowska,Joanna Nizynska,Przemyslaw Czaplinski Pdf

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland’s return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland’s cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland’s modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.

Author : Grzegorz Niziolek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350039674

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The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust by Grzegorz Niziolek Pdf

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis on Polish soil. The period gave rise to two of the most radical and influential theatrical ideas during work on productions that addressed the subject of the Holocaust – Grotowski's Poor Theatre and Kantor's Theatre of Death - but the author examines a deeper impact in the role that theatre played in the processes of collective disavowal to being a witness to others' suffering. In the first part, the author examines six decades of Polish theatre shaped by the perspective of the Holocaust in which its presence is variously visible or displaced. Particular attention is paid to the various types of distortion and the effect of 'wrong seeing' enacted in the theatre, as well as the traces of affective reception: shock, heightened empathy, indifference. In part two, Niziolek examines a range of theatrical events, including productions by Leon Schiller, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Ondrej Spišák. He considers how these productions confronted the experience of bearing witness and were profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holocaust. The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust reveals how -- by testifying about society's experience of the Holocaust -- theatre has been the setting for fundamental processes taking place within Polish culture as it confronts suppressed traumatic wartime experiences and a collective identity shaped by the past.

Author : Dariusz Kosiński
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poland
ISBN : 1906499063

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Performing Poland by Dariusz Kosiński Pdf

Author : Olga Śmiechowicz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527518469

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Polish Theatre after the Fall of Communism by Olga Śmiechowicz Pdf

In international theatre studies, there has been a dearth of studies on Polish contemporary theatre. This book investigates how Polish theatre has changed since 1989 and the fall of Communism. It introduces the most prominent Polish theatre directors, namely Krystian Lupa and his two extremely talented students Krzysztof Warlikowski and Jan Klata. All three of them represent three absolutely different types of aesthetics and ways of thinking about theatre: Krystian Lupa mostly concentrates on Austrian and Russian literature. Krzysztof Warlikowski’s theatre is based on stage versions of William Shakespeare or Ancient authors. Jan Klata focuses his attention on Polish history and current social problems. This book highlights the creativity of Polish contemporary theatre, and shows how different from most theatre traditions in other European countries it is.

Author : Agata Luksza
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609389291

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Polish Theatre Revisited by Agata Luksza Pdf

Polish Theatre Revisited explores nineteenth-century Polish theatre through the lens of theatre audiences. Agata Luksza places special emphasis on the most engaged spectators, known as "theatremaniacs"--from what they wore, to what they bought, to what they ate. The theatre was one of the key areas where early fan cultures emerged, and theatremaniacs indulged in diverse fan practices in opposition to the forces reforming the theatre and its spectatorship.

Author : Adam Mickiewicz,Zygmunt Krasiński,Juliusz Słowacki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Polish drama
ISBN : 9057020882

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Polish Romantic Drama by Adam Mickiewicz,Zygmunt Krasiński,Juliusz Słowacki Pdf

Containing translations of three major plays, in his highly informative introduction, Professor Segel discusses the plays against the background of the Romantic movement in Poland and points out their ideological and artistic importance.

Author : Bryce Lease
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Theater
ISBN : 1526115263

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After '89 by Bryce Lease Pdf

This volume provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history.

Author : Bolesław Klimaszewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Arts, Polish
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039923748

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An Outline History of Polish Culture by Bolesław Klimaszewski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780857285164

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783083213

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Magda Romanska Pdf

Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.