Myśl słaba a praktyki narracyjne we współczesnym teatrze
Weak Thought and Narrative Practices in Contemporary Theatre

Author(s): Kamila Paprocka-Jasińska
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: weak “self;” weak art/artedebole; poetics of the trace; biography; authorial “self;” collage; unreadiness;
Summary/Abstract: Weak thought works very well in different areas of contemporary aesthetics, including Polish theater, which does not lack for elements of fragility and apparent deficiencies, as well as weak entities – on the level of both form and the selection of themes. The article is an attempt at applying tools created by weak thought to the theory and interpretation of contemporary Polish theatre and drama on the example of the production Holzwege by Marta Sokołowska, directed by Katarzyna Kalwat (premiered 15th of January 2016 at TR Warszawa). The biography of a composer Tomasz Sikorski becomes a pretext for philosophical reflections over the subject of death, and as such becomes a treaty on the ontology of weak subjectivity. As a metatheatrical narrative, Holzwege revises the basic theatrical categories. The author conducts her case study mainly on the basis of the figures of the trace and the weak subject, researching their influence on the construction of theatrical narrative and stage character. Creating a definition of a weak character, she reaches to the theories of Gianni Vattimo and Constantin Noica, popularized in Poland by a literary scholar Andrzej Zawadzki in, among other works, the book Literatura a myśl słaba [Literature and Weak Thought], as well as classical and contemporary reflections over dramatis personae.

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