Divine Kraków, Un-Divine Comedy Talk with Oliver Frljić You cannot use somebody who was trying to transgress social norms with his theatrical work to determine norms that must not be transgressed – Oliver Frljić
CRAFTSMEN OF CULTURE:African Tales in Pictures BY Krzysiek Krzysztofiak Photos from the backstage of ‘African Tales by Shakespeare’ directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
The Fight Against Monuments BY Joanna Wichowska The Maria we see in the performance is therefore an obviously made-up character, or rather a series of characters: a sequence of sketches, none of which aspire to be the single, true image
Post-Grotowskian Monasteries BY Dara Weinberg Report From Wrocław’s Grotowski Institute (the second annual Summer Seminars) and Teatr Pieśń Kozła (the Polish premiere of ‘Songs of Lear’)
O dobru, Strzępka and Demirski BY Dorota Kowalkowska The last piece written by Demirski and directed by Strzępka brings a simple, and yet a very difficult thought to verbalise: without the support of others and undoubted faith in that support, we won’t be able to move on
Divine Kraków, Un-Divine Comedy Talk with Oliver Frljić You cannot use somebody who was trying to transgress social norms with his theatrical work to determine norms that must not be transgressed – Oliver Frljić
Post-Grotowskian Monasteries BY Dara Weinberg Report From Wrocław’s Grotowski Institute (the second annual Summer Seminars) and Teatr Pieśń Kozła (the Polish premiere of ‘Songs of Lear’)
The 16th Shakespeare Festival BY Agnieszka Kochanowska This year, the plays staged at the festival spoke about distrust of authority and suspicion of the rules that the world abides by. It’s no accident that, in comparison to previous editions of the festival, Gdańsk saw a disproportionate number of ‘Hamlet’ productions
CRAFTSMEN OF CULTURE:African Tales in Pictures BY Krzysiek Krzysztofiak Photos from the backstage of ‘African Tales by Shakespeare’ directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
There is No Single Mainstream Talk with Wojtek Ziemilski Look around – nowadays even ads for shoes are often bolder than the so-called alternative. The desire for something new and vivid is neither alternative, strange nor unattainable. – Wojtek Ziemilski talks about his Lisbon expierience, going back to Poland and phantom phone vibrations
Polish Theatre and the 32nd Warsaw Theatre Meetings, as Seen by US Visitors BY Dara Weinberg Months after the WST, the longer-term efficacy of the protest letter is not clear
The Fight Against Monuments BY Joanna Wichowska The Maria we see in the performance is therefore an obviously made-up character, or rather a series of characters: a sequence of sketches, none of which aspire to be the single, true image
The White Mass BY Piotr Gruszczyński Artur Żmijewski did something seemingly simple, something which should’ve been done a long time ago. He transplanted mass onto the theatre stage, directly, with no changes made
Greek Chorus Variations: Oratorium Dance Project BY Dara Weinberg The production included over a hundred community participants, along with Chorea and the musicians of the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. Read excerpts from a rehearsal diary from the week before opening
Preaching from the Chorus BY Dara Weinberg ‘I want to create a new kind of chorus theatre,’ says Marta Górnicka. If ‘Tu mówi chór…’ was the birth of that new kind of theatre, then ‘Magnificat’ is its adolescent rebellion
But Why are They Indispensable? BY Marta Bryś In his latest premiere Jan Klata abandons all the strategies that secured him his current position in Polish theatre. Sadly, it seems there is little left once the flashy façade has been removed
Polish Tanztheater? BY Anna Królica It is an interesting coincidence that 1973 saw the creation of both Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal and the Polish Dance Theatre – Poznań Ballet
The End of the Line BY Paweł Soszyński What Lupa staged in Wrocław was simply a bad play. ‘Waiting Room.0’ is an intentional formal and intellectual wasteland
If You Were to do The Card Index… BY Paweł Płoski The National Audiovisual Institute released a new DVD publishing with The Card Index directed by Konrad Swinarski and The Card Index Scattered directed by Tadeusz Różewicz, author of both of these plays
Death in Wrocław BY Paweł Soszyński In her debiut film Małgorzata Dziewulska takes on a challenging task: revising Grotowski’s discourse via the main advocate of the discourse, Ludwik Flaszen
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE:Kraków-Berlin: an Intervention BY James Hopkin A collaboration between Kraków’s Stary Theatre and Berlin’s innovative Maxim Gorky Theatre, the inescapably passenger-interactive events have been written and devised to invoke and link the two cities and a few of the stations en route
MASŁOWSKA IN NYC:Virgin Seduction Talk with Paul Bargett0 I feel there’s a straight line from Mrożek to Dorota. She’d probably kill me if she heard me say that. Or maybe she wouldn’t be offended. But I hear it
MASŁOWSKA IN NYC:Masłowska is real Talk with Benjamin Paloff She doesn’t really have recollections of communism. She actually makes things up, because people want a tale of woe. Then she reflects more seriously on how she does remember communism, which she says she remembers strictly as an aesthetic category