Instrumenty muzyczne w scenografiach Jerzego Grzegorzewskiego
Musical Instruments Appearing in Jerzy Grzegorzewski’s Stage Designs

Ambiguities and Undecidables

Summary/Abstract: Introduction of musical instruments or their representations onto the stage of Polish dramatic theatres is a rarity. Productions by Jerzy Grzegorzewski are an exception to that rule. Musical instruments and their parts, as well as other objects related to music making were an integral element of the director’s artistic universe. Through many-dimensional associations and various modes of their appearance, they pointed to the dynamics of Grzegorzewski’s artistic imagination, indicated various conceptual fields and set the aesthetic and intellectual horizons. The authorial theatre of Jerzy Grzegorzewski, who mostly designed the settings to his productions by himself, presents the world as being multidimensional, unstable, moved by interplay of opposing forces, dark and yet beautiful. Such a vision was shaped by complex, artfully constructed structures of meaning whose character is best grasped by the concept of open form. The stage design was one of the key elements that created this form. The director set representations of musical instruments and their parts into multidimensional orders of meanings evoked by his theatre productions. He pointed to various aspects of materiality of these objects, to their functionality and the sphere of their cultural associations, with the symbolic order included. yspiański’s Wedding at the Stary Theatre in Cracow in 1977. Grzegorzewski appreciated texts in which music was made part of the structure not only as songs but also in the form of poetic organisation of the spoken word, its rhythm and sound orchestration. The principle of constructing the open form with musical instruments as its elements reached the high point in Grzegorzewski’s deconstructionist strategies, especially in Derridean undecidables.

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