Poland * Section of Architecture and Technology

Credits

Curator, author of theme:
Paweł Wodziński

Designer, architect of exhibition:
Mirek Kaczmarek

Other collaborators:
Agata Drogowska

Description

The theatre running away from theatre is a phenomenon as old as the theatre itself, and smart phrase based on terminological turbulences, because theatre has many meanings: starting with the place and building, through artistic practice on stage, the group of creators pursuing it, and finally, the history of this form of art. The escapes of theatre to the outside of theatre have taken on varied forms in Poland.

Artists have fled from spaces prescribed to them by tradition to look for the contact with the audience which was not familiar with the conventional models of interpreting performances. In Poland in modern times such ideas were best expressed in the work of Juliusz Osterwa in the interwar period. (…) What is the specificity of the escapism of the Polish theatre at the beginning of the 21st century about?

Maciej Nowak, Why is Polish Theatre Running Away from Theatre? – text from the catalogue of Polish exhibition “The Reality of Transformation – Transformation of the Reality”

Artists have fled from spaces prescribed to them by tradition to look for the contact with the audience which was not familiar with the conventional models of interpreting performances.

The project was produced by The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute as part of the Prague Quadrennial 2007.

Financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.