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„Historia wesoła, a ogromnie przez to smutna”
“A Jolly Story, and Thus Enormously Sad”

Author(s): Natalia Brajner
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: review; Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu; "Wesele"; Stanisław Wyspiański; "Wesele na postawie Wesela według Wesela Stanisława Wyspiańskiego"; Cezary Tomaszewski

Summary/Abstract: Natalia Brajner reviews a play by Cezary Tomaszewski, The Wedding, Based on the Wedding, performed at Opole's Jan Kochanowski Theater (premiere: 16.04.2015). According to the author, Tomaszewski's performance strikes up a discussion with Stanisław Wyspiański's text and its canonical, symbolic interpretation, and not, as the creators suggest, a liberation from the traditional reading. It is also an attempt to construct an up-to-date, tragicomic appraisal of the state of Polish society.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 127-128
  • Page Range: 119-120
  • Page Count: 2