Teatr, który nie boli
Stary Teatr w Krakowie: Król Ubu, reż. Jan Klata
Theater That Doesn't Hurt
Author(s): Monika KwaśniewskaSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: review; King Ubu; Klata; Jan; Stary Theater in Krakow; Jarry; Alfred; self-quotations; nihilism
Summary/Abstract: A review of the play King Ubu directed by Jan Klata at the Stary Theater in Krakow (premiere: 16.10.2014). The author notes that the director follows Alfred Jarry’s text, aesthetics, and thinking quite closely. Above all, however, the play serves Klata as a way of staging a polemic with his earlier work. King Ubu reproduces their strategies, using a series of self-quotations, but without the mysterious ambivalence, pathos, and horror. The most compelling and disquieting part of the play is its nihilism.
Journal: Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 124
- Page Range: 86-88
- Page Count: 3
- Language: Polish