Pisanie dla sceny i „sceny pisma” Jana Dormana
Writing for the Stage and Jan Dorman’s “Scenes of Writing”

Author(s): Marzenna Wiśniewska
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Jan Dorman; performative archive; screenplay; collage; postdramatic theatre;
Summary/Abstract: Jan Dorman; the creator of the Zagłębie Chidren’s Theater in Będzin; belongs to the Polish theatre avant-garde; which includes; among others; Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor. He left in his archive a rich depository of life and works; which most precious part are the manuscripts of screenplays allowing for the tracing of the process of performances’ creation – from the initial ideas to the holistic stage projects. The article analyses the performative quality of Dorman’s writing for the stage; which reveals itself in the employed dramatic and theatrical strategies (including improvisation; deconstruction of texts; techniques of collage and montage; rhythmicality; play of conventions) and in the very procedure of creating screenplays and their special material form. The reflection simultaneously focuses on the themes of “scenes of writing” (Jacques Derrida); which for Dorman were constituted by the work journals which accompanied the screenplays and interwove with his personal notes. The conclusion of the reflections turns attention to the very idea of theatrical archive as a depository of documents which constitute a performative challenge for the scholars and practitioners of theatre; and as such; invite an artistic treatment.

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