Klasyka jednak konserwatywnie
The Classics Done Conservatively

Summary/Abstract: Dominika Bremer describes the 42nd Opole Classics Touch You Theater Confrontations. She notes from the outset that the performances chosen by the commission are taken from the Polish literary canon. Describing selected performances and comparing them with the jurors’ verdicts, she wonders what sealed the success of The Marriage directed by Anna Augustynowicz or The Card Cataloguedirected by Andrzej Majczak, and why such plays as Michał Kmiecik’s Cracovians and Highlanders or Paweł Świątek’s Constant Princewent unnoticed. The author concludes that “all efforts to update the content of the classic texts, to see them as a pretext for making political and social diagnoses” were undesirable, and the “key to staging the classics […] was a conservative one.”

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