Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a
mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in various
gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and
critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish
theatre: Jerzy Grotowski s Akropolis and Tadeusz Kantor s Dead
Class . By examining each director s representation of Auschwitz,
this study provides a new understanding of how translating national
trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the
meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside
their cultural and historical context.
Although theatre scholars have now gained familiarity with
Akropolis and Dead Class, there remains little understanding of the
complex web of cultural meanings and significations that went into
their making they remain broadly but not deeply known. Grotowski
and Kantor both sought to respond to the trauma of the Holocaust,
albeit through drastically different aesthetics, and this study
develops a comparative critical language through which one can
simultaneously engage Grotowski and Kantor in a way that makes
their differences evocative of a broader conversation about theatre
and meaning. Ultimately, this volume invites and engages with many
questions: how is theatrical meaning codified outside its cultural
context? How is it codified within its cultural context? What
affects the reception of a theatrical work? And, above all, how
does theatre make meaning ?"
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