Łódź jak Ameryka – o występach gwiazd-migrantów teatralnych w Łodzi
Łodź Like America – On the Performance of Stars – Theater Migrants in Łodź

Author(s): Karolina Prykowska-Michalak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Theatre migrants; theatre; migration; theatre stars; Lodz city of migrants
Summary/Abstract: America providing quite an attraction to provincial stages. A number of Polish and non-Polish theatre stars arrived in Lodz, a city developing in the late 19th century. Many of them hoped for professional and financial success. However, theatrical performances in a "city without tradition", carried certain risks. This article turns its attention to the paradoxically difficult reception of theatre stars' performances in Lodz, such as Ira Aldridge, Helena Modrzejewska and Isadora Duncan, who came to the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although they did not always succeed in performing on stage.

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