Il desiderio di utopia. Elementi per definire la costruzione delle distopie teatrali polacche

• Authors: Barbara Minczewa

Title variants

EN

Longing for Utopia: the Construction of Polish Distopic Theatre. Some Considerations

Abstracts

EN

The paper concerns some elements of the construction of worlds represented on stage in recent Polish theatre. This may be seen as a comment on the state of democratic Poland after 1989 and, more generally, as an analysis of the peculiarities of the contemporary world. However, a deeper analysis shows recent theatre staging as structurally similar to the construction of dystopias. The worlds represented on stage are characterized by the presence of a nonlinear construction of time, by the absence of ending, of a horizon and of death, by the presence of ruins (intended literally, as an aesthetic paradigm, and metaphorically) and by the construction of dystopian characters. The analysis focuses on one of the most important performances for the Polish political theatre of the last two decades, H. (2004), a version of Hamlet directed by Jan Klata, performed in the historic and derelict Gdańsk Shipyard, a symbolic stage set which becomes at the same time the place of fulfilment of dystopia and of the emergence of the desire for utopia.

Keywords

EN

Jan Klata; Polish theatre; engaged theatre; political theatre; dystopia; utopia; Solidarność

• Publisher: Associazione Italiana Polonisti (AIP)
• Journal: pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 171-185

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Barbara Minczewa

• University of Rome “Tor Vergata"

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

28409109