Atrium spraw Bizońskich
Atrium spraw Bizońskich

Summary/Abstract: A review of a staging of Cyprian Norwid’s drama The Actor, directed by Michał Zadara (Narodowy Theater, premiere: 4 III 2012). Jarząbek explains the issues in the drama, and then describes Zadara’s directorial strategies. Though he appreciates the decision to stage this rather unpopular text intact, he criticizes both the attempts to contemporize it – “The social stratification of the protagonists is recomposed, though in a way that is offhand, inconsistent, and illegible in its intentions” – and the shift in tone from the text to the stage: “What Norwid conceived in grave seriousness has turned into farce.”

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