Co po Newtonie, czyli brytyjski teatr ostatniej dekady
After Newton, or: British Theater of the Previous Decade

Summary/Abstract: This text by Michał Lachman presents the basic issues in the latest book by an outstanding British drama scholar – Aleks Sierz: Rewriting the Nation. British Theatre Today (Methuen, London 2011) – not yet translated into Polish. Lachman contrasts the dramaturgy of the 1990s with that of the present, describing the process by which texts are made for the theater, commenting on the high status of dramaturgs and the primacy of the text over the other strata of the play. He also devotes a great deal of space to the subject of dramas, highlighting attributes that almost all the works share, such as the timeliness of the themes they address, the aspect of national identity, and fear (of terrorism). He also sketches the oeuvres of the leading authors, with Mark Ravenhill and David Hare at the forefront. Lachman supplements Sierz’s observations with reference to other sources.

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