The post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor : : history and Holocaust in Akropolis and the dead class / / Magda Romanska.
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...
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Superior document: | Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance |
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Place / Publishing House: | London : : Anthem Press,, 2012. |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 401 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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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.