Poza sceną, czyli jawne i niejawne w "Dybuku" Szymona An-skiego
Offstage: The revealed and the concealed in An-sky’s The Dybbuk

Summary/Abstract: The Israeli theatre scholar Shimon Levy describes the works of Samuel Beckett using the category of “offstage,” i.e. what is “backstage” or “behind the scenes.” This notion is also suitable to describe the plot of An-sky’s play The Dybbuk. The plot, which follows the wanderings of the soul of a prematurely deceased lover, is based on a continuous interplay between the explicit and the implicit, the revealed and the concealed, the present and the absent. Applying the category of “offstage” as an analytical tool allows for speaking about the supernatural forces which are depicted in the play, while replacing religious nomenclature with a glossary of terms from the field of theatre.

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