Karol Irzykowski w teatrze dwudziestolecia i o teatrze dwudziestolecia
Karol Irzykowski in the Theatre and on the Theatre of the Interwar Period

Author(s): Dobrochna Ratajczakowa
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: interwar theatre; theatre review; Leon Schiller; Witkacy; Karol Irzykowski
Summary/Abstract: From Irzykowski’s theatrical reviews emerges a special image of their author – it is a man faithful to literature, drama as a literary work, and especially its mental content. This faithfulness gives a special ethical value to his statements about theatre. Irzykowski is able to stand against the general reviewers in defense of the playwrights criticised by them wrongly (as he believes); some other time he is capable of responding viciously and hurling abuse at an author who speaks ill about his profession. He can also criticize the most famous theatre director of that time – Leon Schiller. In the era of domination of the so-called reformers of the theatre, whose writings he knows, his approach to theatre from the perspective of a dramatic work gives his reviews a special value of other modernity.

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