Zmysł realności
A Sense of Reality

Summary/Abstract: Katarzyna Targońska analyzes the creative path of Alvis Hermanis from the moment he took on the New Theater in Riga in 1992. She describes his artistic development, indicating the typical subject matter and work methods that go to create his original style. She takes a close look at Hermanis’s method with actors, involving both collective and independent work. The author shows this to be a decisive factor in the success of his plays, in which fiction and reality constantly intersect, as do collective history and individual memory, thus exploding firm aesthetic frameworks and theatrical categories.

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