Niedoskonałość jako okoliczność założona
Imperfection as a Complex Circumstance

Summary/Abstract: Review of a new translation of Constantin Stanislavski’s book An Actor’s Work on Himself completed by Jerzy Czech and published by PWST in Kraków. Marszałek outlines the problem regarding the reception of the “system” proffered by Stanislavski – mainly known to theorists and practitioners of theatre for his essays, abstracts and syntheses. Afterwards, she compares the Czech’s translation with an earlier one completed by Aleksander Męczyński. She regards the changes made by the translator in an attempt to treat Stanislavski’s work as a manual written for actors positively. However she distances himself from the bold and critical comments made by Czech in relation to the Stanislavski myth, showing how often criticism stems from a translator’s lack of knowledge.

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