“What Am I Doing in the Theater?”: Michał Borczuch in Conversation with Second-Year Theatrology Students from the Jagiellonian University Cover Image

„Co ja robię w teatrze?”. Z Michałem Borczuchem rozmawiają studenci II roku Wiedzy o Teatrze UJ
“What Am I Doing in the Theater?”: Michał Borczuch in Conversation with Second-Year Theatrology Students from the Jagiellonian University

Author(s): Michał Korda, Pamela Bosak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Michał Borczuch; Krzysztof Zarzecki; All about My Mother

Summary/Abstract: This conversation begins with a student asking Michał Borczuch about his approach to theater criticism. The director believes that criticism, like directing, requires an interdisciplinary approach, and is valuable when it places the play in a context of phenomena going beyond the theater. He also speaks of his work at the theater school, The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative scholarship, and working outside the theater institution with people from various social groups. Part two of the conversation concerns his work on the play All about My Mother (Łaźnia Nowa Theater in Krakow, premiere: 22.04.2016), based on recollections Borczuch and actor Krzysztof Zarzecki have of their mothers, who died of cancer. The subject of casting the actors is raised, as is the difference in Borczuch’s and Zarzecki’s theatrical languages, and the play’s reception by their close family.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 133-134
  • Page Range: 31-35
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish