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| Polish Theatre of Transformation |
 Title: Polski teatr przemiany Author: Dariusz Kosinski Date: April 2007 ISBN: 978-83-923635-3-8 Dimensions: 168x238 mm Paperback: 530 pages, 1 black and white photograph, 25 colour photographs Price: 11.00 € Fragment of the book:  Publication supported by the City of Wroclaw and subsidised by the Department of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow The author situates the ideas behind the theatre and creative practices of Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki, Stanislaw Wyspianski, Juliusz Osterwa and Mieczyslaw Limanowski, as well as Jerzy Grotowski, in a common field which he calls ‘Polish theatre of transformation’. He describes this tradition as follows: ‘I think that behind the vitality of “Polish theatre of transformation” stands […] an extremely close connection between art and religion which results in “artistic” activity becoming here a kind of spiritual practice, and “spirituality” manifesting itself mainly in action and in an aspiration towards the experience of the numinous. The “spiritual” and the “artistic” create a dynamic equilibrium, re-shaping each other in such a way that to speak in terms of religion would be a misunderstanding, and to speak only of art would be a reduction’. |