The Community of Euphoria: The Reality-theater of "Solidarity." Cover Image

Wspólnota euforii Rzeczywistość-teatr„Solidarności”
The Community of Euphoria: The Reality-theater of "Solidarity."

Author(s): Paweł Sztarbowski
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Strike; Socialist Poland; Protest; Concert; Play; Society; Tadeusz Kantor

Summary/Abstract: Paweł Sztarbowski describes artistic events connected with the strikes against the Socialist powers in Poland. He describes concerts and plays, often improvised and performed in spaces of protest (shipyards, factories). The text also describes numerous artistic and more or less successful plays created in the theater repertoire on the wave of the political and activist society. He devotes particular attention to the audiences, often composed of workers, whose euphoric responses affected the choice of repertoire, but who were also initially embittered with Tadeusz Kantor's play Wielopole, Wielopole, which it believed to run riot over too many sacred cows.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 121-122
  • Page Range: 37-47
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish