Motywy historiozoficzne w spektaklach Jerzego Jarockiego: Witkacy, Słowacki, Mrożek
Historiosophical motives in the stagings of Jerzy Jarocki

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a piece of work of an excellent director of Polish theatre, Jerzy Jarocki, who was able to connect literature and historiosophy of writers whose plays were shown on a stage. He was deeply interested in the history of Russia; furthermore, he studied works of Witkacy and Sławomir Mrożek. The mentioned artists were also fascinated in eventful history of Russia. One of the last plays of Mrożek was “Love in the Crimea” which can be interpreted as a historiosophical allegory depicting history of Russian culture from the end of the Tsarist Age, through Stalinism, to capitalism. The last theatre play of Jarocki was “The Case” based on Juliusz Słowacki‟s “Samuel Zborowski”. It depicts many famous figures: Józef Piłsudski, Samuel Zborowski, Jan Zamoyski Lucifer; also mentions the Smolensk Disaster.

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