Krytyka teatralna Adama Grzymały-Siedleckiego
Theatre criticism of Adam Grzymała -Siedlecki

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the figure of Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki, a forgotten writer, whowas a playwright, novelist, biographer, director, manager of Cracow theatre. He wasalso a theatrical reviewer and a historian and theoretician of the theatre. One of hismost important activities was theatre critcism. His attitude to theatre evolved duringa few decades. At the begining of the XX century he was impressed by the ideas of theGreat Theatre Reform es- pecially those ones represented by Gordon Craig. Polish criticconsidered theatre as an autonomic art, appreciated the setting for a theatre play andthe main role of a director. In interwar period, when he worked as a reviewer in KurierWarszawski, he became more traditional and conservative: according to him the mostimportant person in the play is an actor. In his reviews he also called for a repertoire basedon Polish comedies, realistic dramas and Polish classics. The view that the fundamentalvalue of the theatre is the interaction between the audience and the actors stands himout in the context of the Young Poland theatre criticism.

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