Islands of Pure Form is presenting an unique theatrical phenomenon: stage Galeria, created and leading in Gdańsk in 60. of 20th century by young painter Jerzy Krechowicz. Singularity of this theatre productions consisted in absent of... actors. In context of this phenomenon author as well is taking a polemic with splendid Polish theoretician Jerzy Limon, who in his book Piąty wymiar teatru says that theatrical performant absolutely can not exist without participation of actor.
Kazimierz Braun is the man of the theatre in the broad sense of this term. The director and the art director of theatres, the scriptwriter and the writer; and at the same time historian of the stage art. The article Towards the Theatrical Community is synthetically presenting achievements of the artist and scientist. The author is focusing above all on the work of Braun in seventies and eighties of the 20th century, that is on the period, in which the most important monographs of the historian arose and fully a style of the director formed. The title in this article theatre of community, how Kazimierz Braun pursued him, was included in im-portant courses in the Polish theatre of those times.
The article shows the figure of Edward Tuckerman Mason as an author, editor and publisher. He was born on 10th April 1847 in New York City (d. 1895). He began his ca-reer as a theatre critic in 1866 in the “New York Word”. This paper presents E.T. Ma-son’s notes the manuscripts of which have been found in the reading room of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. They present excellent de-scriptions of E.T. Mason’s plays. As every detail of the plays is described in the notes, they retain the ‘charm’ of the characters of Ophelia and Macbeth by Modrzejewska and Booth. Mason’s Salvini’s Othello, Modrzejewska’s Ofelia, Booth’s Macbeth remind of Konstanty Puzyna’s idea to create a permanent section of plays description in Dialog.