Allain Gardzienice: Polish Theatre in Transition

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-135-29927-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

In 1977, the Gardzienice Theatre Association, an experimental theatre company was founded in a tiny Polish village. By 1992 The Observer was hailing "Brilliant Gardzienice.and orgy of joy, anguish, prayer and lamentation performed in candlelight with hurtling energy and at breakneck speed.Physically reckless, thrillingly well sung.On no account to be missed. " Today the Gardzienice Theatre Association is hailed as Poland's leading theatre group, training Royal Shakespeare Company actors and touring the world. Paul Allain describes and analyses their sung performances, strenuous physical and vocal training, and anthropological fieldwork amongst marginalized European minorities.
This is one of the first detailed attempts to assess developments in Polish experimental theatres since 1989. The author questions whether those artists can maintain their vision in the face of Poland's economic difficulties and increased commercialization of the arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allain, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the Series

List of Plates

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Polish Theatre - Romanticism Fades 2. The Rural Context and Gardzienice Village 3. Polish Society - The Art of Gathering 4. The Formation of Gardzienice - From Grotowski and Paratheatre 5. Training 6. Performances 7. European Parallels - Future Models 8. An Intercultural Assessment 9. Searching for a New Language

Conclusion

Postscript

Appendix: Polishing up on our Classics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Allain is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. As a movement director he has collaborated with Katie Mitchell for many years and has trained actors at the Royal Shakespeare and Royal National Theatre companies for productions including The Dybbuk, Ghosts, Rutherford and Sons, The Machine-Wreckers and Henry IV Part 3. His own company, Bodywork, had its première at Sadler's Wells' Mosaics Festival in 1996. Dr Allain is co-editor with Professor Vera Gottlieb of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Chekhov.