Staging Clichés and Settling Scores
Abstract
Paweł Sztarbowski, 'Staging Clichés and Settling Scores', Polish Theatre Journal no. 2(6)2018.
Keywords
collective emotions; polish theatre in ’80; Solidarity movement; theatre critic.
Paweł Sztarbowski
PhD. He graduated from the philosophy programme at the University of Warsaw, attended Theatre Studies at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. He completed his doctoral dissertation, ‘Teatr i Solidarność.O teatrze wspólnoty’ [‘Theatre and Solidarity: On the Theatre of Community’] supervized by Prof. Krystyna Duniec, in the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2006 to 2011, he worked in the Theatre Institute in Warsaw as the head of the department of theatre promotion, and from 2011 to 2014 in the Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz as the deputy director and programme director of the Festival of New Dramaturgies. Since September 2014, he has been working in the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw as the deputy director responsible for programming. He was a creator of Nowa Siła Krytyczna [the New Critical Force], a group of young critics writing for the Polski Wortal Teatralny at e-teatr.pl. He has collaborated as critic and writer with Tygodnik Powszechny, Notatnik Teatralny, Teatr, Didaskalia, Opcje, Metro, Newsweek Polska, as well as international theatre journals including Theater der Zeit, Svet e Divadlo and Theatre Seasons. He has been a regular columnist for the website e-teatr.pl and author of many academic papers on theatre, presented at Polish and international conferences and published in essay collections. He edited the collections Liberated Energy(Warsaw, 2011) and Teatr wspólny (Bydgoszcz, 2013).
Paweł Sztarbowski
PhD. He graduated from the philosophy programme at the University of Warsaw, attended Theatre Studies at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. He completed his doctoral dissertation, ‘Teatr i Solidarność.O teatrze wspólnoty’ [‘Theatre and Solidarity: On the Theatre of Community’] supervized by Prof. Krystyna Duniec, in the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2006 to 2011, he worked in the Theatre Institute in Warsaw as the head of the department of theatre promotion, and from 2011 to 2014 in the Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz as the deputy director and programme director of the Festival of New Dramaturgies. Since September 2014, he has been working in the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw as the deputy director responsible for programming. He was a creator of Nowa Siła Krytyczna [the New Critical Force], a group of young critics writing for the Polski Wortal Teatralny at e-teatr.pl. He has collaborated as critic and writer with Tygodnik Powszechny, Notatnik Teatralny, Teatr, Didaskalia, Opcje, Metro, Newsweek Polska, as well as international theatre journals including Theater der Zeit, Svet e Divadlo and Theatre Seasons. He has been a regular columnist for the website e-teatr.pl and author of many academic papers on theatre, presented at Polish and international conferences and published in essay collections. He edited the collections Liberated Energy(Warsaw, 2011) and Teatr wspólny (Bydgoszcz, 2013).