Festival boska Komedia: spoločensko-politické a estetické aspekty poľského divadla
The Divine Comedy Theatre Festival: Socio-Political and aesthetic aspects of Polish Theatre

Summary/Abstract: This text reflects on the Fifteenth Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival in Krakow, which showcases the most interesting and most discussed Polish productions of the season. The author focuses on the socio-political context of the theatre productions, which is closely linked not only to the stagings, but also to the festival itself. She introduces the crucial aspects of the socially dedicated activities of the previous years of the festival in the period after the 2015 parliamentary elections. The dramaturgy of the latest year of the festival layered tabooed topics and the selection of themes reflected the problematic socio-political situation. The paper contains critical reflections on some of the productions and monitors the topics connected with the festival productions as representatives of Polish theatre: taboo, responsibility, the procedurality of theatrical communication, theatre as a desacralized ritual, the (re-)politicization of theatre, configurations of the past and the contemporary, and the aesthetic aspects of a theatrical work.

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