Muzyczna scena Różewicza
Tadeusz Różewicz’s Musical Stage

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the varied forms of music (classical and popular) as well as their applications in the theatre plays of Tadeusz Różewicz. Its author contests the hypothesis that Różewicz’s theatre is visual in nature, demonstrating that its aural qualities (phonetic characteristics of language, microdramatic properties of aural events, and the projected music) play no less important a role in engineering the audience’s perceptions than the visual aspects. Using the methodology of interme- diality studies, she brings out the dramatic potential of musical intertextualities that come into dialogue with the text or that cannot be expressed by the spoken word; she shows how music can become the playwright’s side note, which can be satirical, parodistic, or grotesque in its metatheatrical nature. Musical elements in Różewicz’s plays are typically straddling the boundaries between the original context of the play and the cultural contexts evoked by those elements. At the same time, the modern, multifaceted approach to the aural aspect often leads to blurring the lines between the acoustic phenomena and, consequently, to the emancipation of the aural space—an emancipation that is not a secession from the visual but a new quality with new meanings that cannot be borne out of the visual.

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