...Daniel Gerould; Jadwiga Kosicka Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 • Political Cabaret In Poland: Jan Pietrzak's Under the Aegis Daniel Gerould and Jadwiga...

...Rustom Bharucha; Janice Paran; Laurence Shyer; Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1983 1983 Directors, Dramaturgs and War in Poland: An Interview with Jan Kott Rustorn Bharucha, Janice Paran, Laurence...

... to propose a musical celebrating Poland’s hundred-year anniversary of independence by valorizing Jan Paderewski. Cioffi concludes that the nationalistic impulses of the right-wing government are shielded by their choice of American artists for a state-sponsored project, and of Paderewski, household name...

...Tom Sellar © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 The Master and Margarita, directed by Krystian Lupa. Stary Teatr, Krakow, 2001 Tom Sellar Poland’s Old and New Masters Foundations The annihilation of Warsaw in 1944 was so total that, in some cases...

...Allen Kuharski Copyright © 1999 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 1999 ALLENKUHARSKI JERZY GROTOWSKI Ascetic and Smuggler The tragic irony of Jerzy Grotowski’s death may prove to be that his absence is neces- sary for his past presence in both Poland...

.... MARYA: There is much sadness in PROLOGUE Poland. CHOPIN: Good evening. My name is BEEZO: We set the scene: a full moon, Frederick Chopin. The music you...

... multiple perspectives—one must see the road ahead and look in the rearview mirror at the same time. This has always been true but is especially apparent in the midst of the Gombrowicz centennial year in 2004. Gombrowicz was a playwright and the con- summate writer’s writer. He lived in Poland...

... the original publication of the text in the prestigious interwar literary review Skamander. The Warsaw production was part of a brief thaw in the censorship of Gombrowicz’s works in Poland in the late 1950s. Although the premiere was a critical and popular success, a second Polish production...

... as meeting the author himself. That either exists at all defies a myriad of seemingly overwhelming cultural and political forces. Kott’s primary claim to fame outside of Poland has been his highly influential study Shakespeare Our Contemporary, one of the most...

...Dragan Klaić Land of Ashes and Diamonds: My Apprenticeship in Poland by Eugenio Barba © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000 books and Diamonds...

...Kathleen Cioffi © 2010 Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2010 Year of Grotowski Grotowski Institute, Wrocław, Poland January 2009–January 2010 Productions and Events Kathleen Cioffi Grotowski’s Anniversary, Grotowski’s Legacy Year of Grotowski...

... September 2009 Productions and Events Kathleen Cioffi Grotowski’s Anniversary, Grotowski’s Legacy Year of Grotowski Grotowski Institute, Wrocław, Poland January 2009 – January 2010 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization unesco( ) gave the world a gift...

...Stephen Nunns © 2010 Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2010 Productions and Events Kathleen Cioffi Grotowski’s Anniversary, Grotowski’s Legacy Year of Grotowski Grotowski Institute, Wrocław, Poland January 2009 – January 2010 The United Nations Educational...

... theatrical experience I can remember was K-w Not much later, you became a theater my close relationship with Ida Kaminska, a reviewer. daughter of the famous actress and founder of In high school in Warsaw; someone the Jewish Theater in Poland, Ruth...

... the overthrow of Europe’s pre–­World War II bourgeoisie by alternating fascist and com- munist revolutions. While Gombrowicz’s fame was cresting in Western Europe in the late 1960s, restrictions on the performance and publication of his work in Poland and the Soviet bloc were as strict as ever. The Italian...

... by Tom Sellar In the mid-1990s the artistic directorship of Poland’s leading national theaters was turned over to a new generation of young directors (the oldest here is forty), following the fall of state communism in 1989. In November 2002 I visited several of them indi- vidually...

... and the play intimate: Chopin didn’t write for Poland. It tapped something real deep in orchestra, he wrote for a single instrument, me - I’m second generation Polish- and the delicacy in his music led me...

... Kathleen Cioffi A Shakespeare Theater Like No Other Opening of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, September 19, 2014 British Week, September 20 – 26, 2014 Eighteenth Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival, September 27 – October 5, 2014 Gdańsk, Poland, may be best known as the city that gave birth...

... in Poland. He now lives in New York and has been on the faculty of Harvard University since 1980. Preston’s directing credits include the world premiere of Terra Nova at th Yale Repertory neater, and a subsequent production...

... these countries and societies, we might take a look at a couple of countries from Eastern Europe where radical right-w­ ing political parties actually reached the highest positions in government. This has been the case in Poland and Hungary in recent years, and with two diametrically opposite results; while...