Dwa przedstawienia Teatru NN. Uwagi o 'Wędrówkach niebieskich' i 'Ziemskich pokarmach'
Two Spectacles at the NN Theatre. Remarks on 'Wędrówki niebieskie' and 'Ziemskie pokarmy'

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of two earliest spectacles shown by the NN Theatre – both written and directed by Tomasz Pietrasiewicz (1990 and 1991). The analyses indicate that the theatrical reality construed on stage is a form of an inner landscape, which discloses space “suffused with values” and, at the same time, poses fundamental questions about the nature of the world and human condition as well as the sources and meaning of art. Artistic introspection – whose figure is wandering – leads towards problems connected with the artist’s identity, relations between solitude and art, and the status of actual reality perceived through the prism of creativity envisaged as an act of inner freedom and a supreme form of existence. Seen from this viewpoint, the debut spectacle shown at the NN Theatre (Wędrówki niebieskie) is a study on artistic imagination. The next spectacle (Ziemskie pokarmy) comprises, first and foremost, reflections on the essence of “the theatrical”. In both cases we deal with a conviction that art – similarly to life – consists of endless wandering, a search for “the signs of meaning”.

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