Ćwiczenia ze Strindberga
Exercises in Strindberg

Summary/Abstract: This text – written for an anniversary book dedicated to Professor Lech Sokół – is a presentation of three “approaches” made by Tadeusz Łomnicki to Strindberg’s protagonist in three different dramas: Pariah and The Father by Strindberg and Dürrenmatt’s Play Strindberg, i.e. an adaptation of The Dance of Death. The first two texts were shown by television theatre, and the third – in a traditional theatre. Łomnicki prepared each role with the assistance of such means of artistic expression, which best rendered the very essence of the dramatis persona. We receive three – seemingly – realistic portrayals of the so-called strong man, together with his unchanging opinions about the world, who dominates the reality surrounding him. Their realism remains illusory since the assumption of the actor’s message consists of demonstrating a certain type of behaviour characteristic for man regardless of the time and environment in which he lives. Łomnicki was interested more in the visualisation of the idea or the phenomenon than in portraying an individual.

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