The post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor : : history and Holocaust in Akropolis and the dead class / / Magda Romanska.

• Superior document: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
• VerfasserIn: Romanska, Magda,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Anthem Press,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 401 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski's 'A...

Table of Contents

• Part I Our Auschwitz: Grotowski's Akropolis
• Chapter 1 Jerzy Grotowski: A Very Short Introduction 49
• Chapter 2 Native Son: Grotowski in Poland 57
• Chapter 3 Grotowski: The Polish Context 62
• Chapter 4 Grotowski, the Messiah: Coming to America 73
• Chapter 5 The Making of an Aura 82
• Chapter 6 On Not Knowing Polish 86
• Chapter 7 "In Poland: That is to Say, Nowhere" 90
• Chapter 8 Akropolis/Necropolis 93
• Chapter 9 The Vision and the Symbol 95
• Chapter 10 "This Drama as Drama Cannot Be Staged" 104
• Chapter 11 Two National Sacrums 107
• Chapter 12 "Hollow Sneering Laughter": Mourning the Columbuses 111
• Chapter 13 Against Heroics 119
• Chapter 14 Representing the Unrepresentable 122
• Chapter 15 Trip to the Museum 126
• Chapter 16 Bearing the Unbearable 129
• Chapter 17 The Living and the Dead 136
• Chapter 18 Jacob's Burden 141
• Chapter 19 The Final Descent 147
• Chapter 20 Textual Transpositions 150
• Chapter 21 Akropolis After Grotowski 152
• Illustrations 157
• Part II Our Memory: Kantor's Dead Class
• Chapter 22 Tadeusz Kantor: A Very Short Introduction 185
• Chapter 23 Dead Class: The Making of the Legend 193
• Chapter 24 Dead Class in Poland 196
• Chapter 25 The Polish History Lesson 199
• Chapter 26 Dead Class Abroad 201
• Chapter 27 On Not Knowing Polish, Again 204
• Chapter 28 The Visual and the Puerile 209
• Chapter 29 The National and the Transnational 212
• Chapter 30 Witkiewicz's Tumor 215
• Chapter 31 An Age of Genius: Bruno Schulz and the Return to Childhood 229
• Chapter 32 Conversing with Gombrowicz: The Dead, the Funny, the Sacred and the Profane 238
• Chapter 33 Panirony: "A pain with a smile and a shrug" 244
• Chapter 34 Raising the Dead 252
• Chapter 35 Dead Class as Kaddish ... 256
• Chapter 36 Dead Class as Dybbuk, or the Absence 260
• Chapter 37 The Dead and the Marionettes 262
• Chapter 38 Men and Objects 267
• Chapter 39 Dead Class as Forefathers' Eve 274
• Chapter 40 Dead Class: The Afterlife 280.