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A Different Look

On Several Productions of Dramas by Tadeusz Różewicz in Recent Years

Summary/Abstract: Różewicz’s literary work, staged rather sporadically, constitutes nevertheless an important point of reference for artistic explorations of quite a large number of Polish theatre artists of the middle and younger generations. Playwrights born in the 1970s, e.g. Michał Walczak, make references to Różewicz while directors of the same age put on Różewicz’s dramas. The author of this essay, thus, asks the following questions: Who Tadeusz Różewicz is for today’s directors? Inwhat ways do they engage in discourse with the theatre project contained in his plays, with the “impossible theatre” that fuses realism with poetry by replacing a rigid dramatic form with a “collection of fragments” and rejecting “the unfolding of events” in favour of “internal acts”? An overview of selected productions of Różewicz’s plays from recent years leads the author to the conclusion that it would be difficult to find a production fully complying with the playwright’s theatrical vision.

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