Klasyka – interwencje Tekst, scena, społeczeństwo
The Classics: Interventions Text – Stage – Society

Author(s): Piotr Morawski
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: : the classics; intervention; The Curse; political theatre; engaged theatre;
Summary/Abstract: The text is devoted to different strategies of working with texts which belong to the historical and theatrical canon. The point of departure is constituted by the competition “Classics alive” and – in consequence – the understanding of the classics which the competition forced upon theatres and artists; and the attempt to break this traditional frame. Writing for the stage is understood here as a number of interventions – interfering with the text in case of an adaptation; breaking the frame of the production; and as such; entering into a relation with the social reality. The author attempted to demonstrate that an intervention at each of these stages serves; at the end of the day; to broaden the field of play and to break the theatricality; to reveal it as a certain convention. Thus; I write about Forefather’s Eve of Michał Zadara and Radosław Rychcik; Catherine the Great and Towiańczycy. Krolowie Chmur (The Towanians. Cloud Kings) of Jolanta Janiczak and Wiktor Rubin. The most spectacular example of such interventions in the recent times is; naturally; The Curse by Oliver Frljić; the repertoire of textual intervention strategies which resonate into the social reality is; of course; much broader. According to the author; this strategy has the greatest power; allows for responding to the extra-theatrical reality and infects the spectacle with it; but also vice versa – theatrical interventions become a virus released into the social order.

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