Scena i Lutnia Robotnicza (1919-1921)
Scena i Lutnia Robotnicza (1919–1921)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Scena i Lutnia Robotnicza (the Workers’ Stage and Lute), a group made up of workers who, under the direction of Antonina Sokolicz, were forming this theatre in 1919–1921 in Warsaw. The article presents the place of the Stage and Lute in the Sokolicz’s artistic output and biography, reconstructs the fate of the theatre in connection with its assumptions and aspirations as a workers’ theatre, and describes the most important artistic project – Hauptmann’s Tkacze (Weavers). The article was written on the basis of the preserved archival materials from Antonina Sokolicz’s personal files, press reports on the activity of the group and theoretical texts by the group’s director.

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