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Sculptor of Meanings

Summary/Abstract: Beata Guczalska examines the documentary film recordings of Jerzy Jarocki’s rehearsals for some of his most outstanding productions: The Wedding at the Stary Theatre (prem: 20 IV 1990), The Trap and Käthchen of Heilbronn at the Polski Theatre in Wrocław (prem: 30 V 1992; 30 XI 1994). The author describes the varied methods that enabled Jarocki, via an everyday exchange of opinions or the simple act of walking across the stage, to incorporate a manifesto for the philosophy of life, hidden obsessions and the determination of the characters. Jarocki, when working with an actor, would offer fresh hints and strove to fill out and deepen the stage message, while the actor attempted to filter these hints and prescriptions through his own psychophysical apparatus and transform them into the language of physical signs. Guczalska describes Jarocki’s relationship with an actor as an alchemical tandem: one party throws in the ingredients, while the other skilfully welds them into a new precious metal.

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