Skuteczność teatru lokalnego
The Efficacy of Local Theater

Summary/Abstract: Piotr Olkusz's article is an attempt to map out the local theater in Poland and fit it into the wider context of discussion on local particularities and the complicated relations between the utilitarian and political roles of art. The author outlines the evolution of the movement, which has crossed over into the mainstream of theater aesthetics. His subjective overview of the most important phenomena in local theater over the past decade or so also includes failed projects, which he sees as examples of the idea of distorting locality and reducing it to yet another theatrical format. Olkusz surveys the critical potential of the local theater with reference to research on grass-roots revolutionary tactics and the political stance of such authors as David Harvey, Claire Bishop, and Jacques Rancière.

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