Dramat liturgiczny dzisiaj. Wątpliwości, nadzieje, wizje, Zapis spotkania w KIK-u
Liturgical Drama Today. Doubts, Hopes, Visions. A Register of a Discussion Held in a Catholic Intelligentsia Club

Summary/Abstract: The titular discussion was attended by theatre experts, theologians, clergymen, musicologists and anthropologists. Theoreticians and practicians. The friends and lovers of Schola of the Węgajty Theatre. The multi-motif debate concerned assorted aspects of the Schola’s activity. Much was said about the importance of the quest conducted by the Schola, aimed at a reanimation of liturgical drama in Poland and its introduction into a living theatrical-religious circuit. The participants of the discussion showed the distinctness of the undertakings pursued by Wolfgang Niklaus and his company against the backdrop of the theatrical avant-garde associated with Kantor and Grotowski. The topic of the debates included the difficult and highly ambivalent revalorisation of tradition, indicating the accompanying threats (a tendency towards turning the theatre into a museum), but also the positive side of such ventures (a living, currently created and constructed tradition). The speakers demonstrated the obstacles which hamper the staging of liturgical drama, connected with an incessant balancing between the sacral and the secular. The great merit of the discussion was its extremely personal nature. It must be stressed that in many cases erudite theoretical-historical statements or those concerning musical performances, were accompanied by totally private confessions made by musicians collaborating with the Schola or the participants of the dramas presented by this theatrical company. Their views not only stimulated the discussion, but also proved irrefutably that despite certain differences in the assessment of the Węgajty Theatre, its members perceive the encounter with liturgical drama as an essential experience.

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