In Tadeusz Kudliński’s circle: Wiesław Gorecki Cover Image

W kręgu Tadeusza Kudlińskiego: Wiesław Gorecki
In Tadeusz Kudliński’s circle: Wiesław Gorecki

Author(s): Michał Zdunik
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Kudliński; poetic drama; modernism;

Summary/Abstract: Three one-act plays – The Elevator, The Rebellion and The Freud – written by Wiesław Gorecki are analysed in the paper. These plays were premiered in 1934 by a theatre group Mikroscena, founded by Tadeusz Kudliński. In my opinion, Wiesław Gorecki’s dramas are examples of modern aesthetics (as defined by Richard Sheppard). We can read these works as a poetic drama (The Elevator), the Ibsenesque psychological theatre (The Fraud) and a game with scenic illusion in the style of Pirandello (The Rebellion). Finally, I created a new term for Goreckis’ plays: “miniature, light and bourgeois modernism”.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 200-210
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish