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SPOTLIGHT ON POLISH THEATRE
The Spotlight on Poland showcases new developments in Polish theatre both at home and abroad. From performance reviews and interviews, to an ever-growing archive of essays, the series offers The Theatre Times' readers a window on the Polish theatre landscape.
EDITORIALS
The Spotlight on Poland: Diverse Voices and Perspectives on Contemporary Polish Theatre - Kasia Lech, Regional Managing Editor for Poland
The Context of Contemporary Polish Theatre: Spotlight on Poland - Magda Romanska, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief
Grzegorz Jarzyna – the head and artistic director of TR Warszawa (Poland) discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work, TR Warszawa, and the theatre community in Poland. He also reflects on what may the future of theatre look like.
It Takes Artistry to Make Theatre for Young Audiences: New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural...
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“I Don’t Know What It Means To Be An Actor”: Mamadou Góo Bâ In Conversation With Monika Kwaśniewska
Monika Kwaśniewska: What is your educational background in the arts? Did you graduate from drama...
From “Tarantella” To Theatre Design: Prampolini And Polish Futurism At The Łódź Museum Of Art
Three gramophones affixed to angular wooden boxes stood tall, almost animal-like, on wiry metal...
“The Interrupted Dream” by Hong Kong’s Zuni Icosahedron in Wrocław, Poland
Tang Xianzu’s sixteenth-century classic, Peony Pavilion (1598), is a play about boundaries and...
Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Różewicz: Shared Themes and Motifs
INTRODUCTION This article is comparative in approach and introduces the work of two classic...
Make Your Classroom Multilingual: On Training Students For Rapidly Changing Cultural Landscapes
How do we train students to work within rapidly changing landscapes and for a theatre of the...
“Najdziwniejszy Androgyn” (The Strangest Androgyne): Autism in Performance
A short documentary opening the series entitled Spradyczni artyści (Sporadic Artists, dir....
Feedback Loop: “No One’s Gonna Believe Me Anyway” at the Gniezno Theatre
“No one’s gonna believe me anyway,” says Barbara repeatedly. She knows there is no point in...
Divine Comedy Festival 2017 Review: “Cezary Goes To War”
Cezary Goes To War [Cezary Idzie Na Wojnę], an autobiographical piece directed by Cezary...
Polish Shakespeare Online: Maja Kleczewska’s “Macbeth”
L. P. Hartley’s much-recycled observation that ‘the past is a foreign country’ seems an oddly...
“Unknown, I Live With You”: Oppression and Song
Opera is filled with tales of violence. Its whole history relies on great passions tragically...
Notes from the Generation After 4 Showcase
Mid-September brought us a week of new, Polish theatre productions, and a sneak peek behind the...
“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show...
Beckett 2020
Have the worlds of Samuel Beckett’s plays become our reality? The creators of Beckett Planet seem...
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LATEST FROM POLAND
- “Border” And “Sheol/שאול” – Wachowicz/Fret Studio At Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024
- On The Other Side Of The Conundrum – A New Drama Inspired By “Picnic At Hanging Rock” In The National Theater Of Warsaw Poland [Part III]
- On The Other Side Of The Conundrum – A New Drama Inspired By “Picnic At Hanging Rock” In The National Theater Of Warsaw Poland [Part II]
- On The Other Side Of The Conundrum – A New Drama Inspired By “Picnic At Hanging Rock” In The National Theater Of Warsaw Poland [Part I]
- It Takes Artistry to Make Theatre for Young Audiences: New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024
- “Dziwna Wiosna”: About Cruelty Without Brutality or a War Story for the Young Children
- Performance That Every Man Should See, And No Child Should
- “Ja Goryl, Ty Człowiek:” Understanding Koko
- “PÚPÄTKO” from the Slovak Ján Palárik Theatre
- “Drapando:” Scratching For A Connection
- “Púpätko” at the 7th New Theatre for Children Festival
- Make Your Classroom Multilingual: On Training Students For Rapidly Changing Cultural Landscapes
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- “Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter:” Theater Conventions for Kids
- A Theatre of Elsewhere
- “Waiting for Lucky” and “Quê Onde” – A Brazilian Beckett Double Bill Presented at the Between.Pomiędzy Dispersed Festival 2023
- “Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
- Polish People Deserve Better From Irish Theatre…
- Poland at The Edinburgh Fringe 2023: Lubuski Teatr’s “Gusła” And The Song Of The Goat’s “Andronicus Synecdoche”
- ENTRE: A Dispersed Festival of Literature and Theater in Goiania and São Paulo, Brazil
- Theatre and Social Justice in Brazil: The Successful Case of the São Paulo Theatre School
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