A History of Polish Theatre

Katarzyna Fazan is Professor in the Theatre and Drama Department at Jagiellonian University and in the State Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. She is Editor-in-Chief of the series Teatr/Konstelacje. Her book publications include Projekty intymnego teatru śmierci. Wyspiański-Leśmian-Kantor (2009), Kantor. Nie/Obecność (2019); and with Anna R. Burzyńska and Marta Bryś, Dziś Tadeusz Kantor! Metamorfozy śmierci, pamięci i obecności/Tadeusz Kantor Today: Metamorphoses of Death, Memory and Presence (2014). Michal Kobialka is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota. He has published over 100 articles, essays, and reviews. His book publications include Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre (2009), Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter (2015), co-edited with Rosemarie Bank, and Tadeusz Kantor's Memory: Other Pasts, Other Futures (2018), co-edited with Natalia Zarzecka. Bryce Lease is Reader in Theatre & Performance Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and Co-Editor of Contemporary Theatre Review. His publications include After '89: Polish Theatre & the Political (2016) and, as editor, Contemporary European Playwrights (2020). He is Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project 'Staging Difficult Pasts: Of Objects, Narratives and Public Memory' (http://stagingdifficultpasts.org).

1. Where is Poland? What is Poland?; 1.1 The ambiguous republic Krzysztof Zajas; 1.2 The global archive and the periphery Dorota Sajewska; 2. Staropolski (old polish) theatre; 2.1 Stages and audiences of Poland between the middle ages and 1765 Agnieszka Marszałek; 2.2 Theatres of identity Mirosław Kocur; 3. The public stage and the enlightenment; 3.1 Poniatowski's national theatre: The idea and institution of enlightenment Piotr Olkusz; 3.2 The birth and death of the eighteenth-century myth of the polish public stage Dobrochna Ratajczakowa; 4.1 Romanticism Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Cyprian Kamil Norwid Włodzimierz Szturc; 4.2 Adam Mickiewicz: Between the province and the cosmos Zbigniew Majchrowski; 5. Mapping theatre (I): 5.1 Jewish theatre in Poland Alyssa Quint and Michael Steinlauf; 5.2 Polish theatre in Vilnius Martynas Petrikas; 6. Mapping theatre (II); 6.1 German theatre in Poland until 1989 Małgorzata Leyko; 6.2 Shakespeare and/in polish theatrical cultures Aleksandra Sakowska; 7. Modernist theatre; 7.1 New ideas of theatre and their materialization Katarzyna Fazan; 7.2 Stage practices at the turn of the twentieth century Dorota Jarząbek-Wasyl; 8. Avant-Gardes; 8.1 Inter-reality: Between matter and memory in the polish Avant-Garde Agnieszka Jelewska; 8.2 Avant-Garde sound theatre Anna R. Burzyńska; 9. Theatre during the second world war Justyna Biernat and Karolina Czerska; 10. Political theatres; 10.1 The political subject Joanna Krakowska; 10.2 The politics of non-political theatre Grzegorz Niziołek; 11. Ritual theatre; 11.1 Theatre's reorigination in ritual Kris Salata; 11.2 Ritual and performance legacies Tadeusz Kornaś; 12. Actors and animants; 12.1 Actors and acting in the nineteenth century Beth Holmgren; 12.2 The actor's craft in Poland (1918–2018) Beata Guczalska; 12.3 Puppet theatre Marek Waszkiel; 13. Writing and dramaturgy; 13.1 Polish playwrights since 1900 Ewa Guderian-Czaplińska; 13.2 Theatre without playwrights Marcin Kościelniak; 14. Theatre ontologies; 14.1 No progress, no precursor Krystyna Duniec; 14.2 Homosocial relations and feminist transgressions: Theatre and patriarchy Agata Adamiecka-Sitek.