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6 October (Wed), 5 p.m. Laboratory Theatre Space, 27 Rynek-Ratusz
The Grotowski Institute, in association with the Drama Department of the Jagiellonian University and the Ksiêgarnia Akademicka publishing house, are pleased to invite everyone to a talk by Prof. FREDDIE ROKEM, University of Tel Aviv, titled “What makes poetry/theatre/performance more philosophical than history?” The talk, celebrating the launch of the book Performing History in Polish translation (Wystawianie historii, 50th volume in the “Interpretacje dramatu” series), will open a series of MASTER LECTURES held as part of the Grotowski Institute’s Open Research University. The talk will be in English with consecutive translation into Polish.  Freddie Rokem WYSTAWIANIE HISTORII. TEATRALNE OBRAZY PRZESZ£O¦CI WE WSPÓ£CZESNYM TEATRZE Translated by Mateusz Borowski, Ma³gorzata Sugiera Ksiêgarnia Akademicka 2010, ISBN 978-83-7638-040-7 Inspired by performance studies and new historicism, Freddie Rokem’s book examines the changing conventions of representing and establishing the past based on selected theatre productions about the French Revolution and Shoah. Invoking the best known productions of Israeli, European and American theatre, Rokem presents the whole gamut of typical solutions used to invoke historic events on stage and invest them with contemporary political relevance. Freddie Rokem was born in Stockholm, Sweden. In mid-1960s he went to study in Israel to explore his Jewish roots and heritage. He has been based in Jerusalem for over 30 years, and works as a professor at the Department of Theatre Arts of the University of Tel Aviv. Rokem specialises in the history of 19th- and 20th-century theatre seen in a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Apart from the multiple award-winning Performing History (2000), he published Tradition and Renewal: Swedish Drama and Theatre, 1914-1922 (1977) in Swedish, and two books in English: Theatrical Space in Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg: Public Forms of Privacy (1986) and Philosophers & Thespians. Thinking Performance (2010). |
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