ALEKSANDER BARDINI IN DRAMATIC THEATRE. THE DIRECTOR'S SILHOUETTE (Aleksander Bardini w teatrze dramatycznym. Sylwetka rezysera)

• Authors: Osterloff Barbara
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In 1995, when Aleksander Bardini was mourned, he was remembered and eulogised mostly as a pedagogue and actor, and not so much as a director. The authors of younger generation perceived his productions as legendary; this was especially the case with his Dziady (Forefathers' Eve), which had been the first Warsaw production of the drama by Mickiewicz after the Second World War. Since he last worked as dramatic theatre director twenty years before his death, at which time he directed Barbarians by Gorky, his accomplishments in this field were in time overshadowed by his acting and teaching. Barbara Osterloff in her study recalls the most important productions which Bardini directed at dramatic theatres from 1941 to 1975, as well as his Television Theatre spectacles. The author makes ample use of priceless, and previously unknown to theatre researchers, documents from Bardini's home archive, such as his director copies. Osterloff sketches the full silhouette of the director who throughout his life remained faithful to a theatre that was 'literature-centred', and who, while working 'on the text level', treated his actors as indispensible co-creators and partners.

Keywords

EN

ALEKSANDER BARDINI; POLISH THEATRE

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 3-4(235-236)
• Pages: 179-272
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Osterloff Barbara

• Barbara Osterloff, Akademia Teatralna im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza, ul. Miodowa 22/24, Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA093722