Le mani di Jacek Woszczerowicz, attore “di composizione”

• Authors: Giulia Randone

Title variants

EN

An actor of composition. Jacek Woszczerowicz’s hands

Abstracts

EN

The article aims to draw attention back to the art of Jacek Woszczerowicz, once a well-known and beloved Polish actor. It focuses on his peculiar acting style by analyzing two adaptations of stage dramas and a documentary of a theatrical masterpiece Richard III (1960). In particular, the author highlights Woszczerowicz’s work on gesture and the role played by hands in building characters. This brief survey will lead us to re-discover the deep process of cognition and experience realized dramatically by the artist and to understand why Jan Kott considered him “the first contemporary Shakespeare”, while Jerzy Grotowski praised him as the greatest “actor of composition”.

Keywords

EN

Jacek Woszczerowicz; Jan Kott; Acting; Gesture; Jerzy Grotowski

• Publisher: Associazione Italiana Polonisti (AIP)
• Journal: pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 141-154

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Giulia Randone

• University of Turin

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

28409082