Abstract
The theatre director Jan Klata, also director of the National Stary Theatre in Krakow, tells the theatre scholar Prof. Dariusz Kosiński about his experiences of this position. Klata analyses a series of productions in the context of categories raised by Kosiński, including political aspects, censorship and dictatorship, as well as discussing the crises that have hit theatre in recent seasons.
Keywords
censorship;engaged theatre; institutional criticism
Dariusz Kosiński
(1966), professor at the Performance Studies Department of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. His main publications are Polski teatr przemiany (2007), Grotowski. Przewodnik (2009), Teatra polskie. Historie (2010), the German translation Polnisches Theater. Eine Geschichte in Szenen (Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2011). In 2010–2013 he was the research director of the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław. He was a member of the editorial board of the collected texts of Jerzy Grotowski, published in Polish in 2012. Since February 2014 the research director of the Theatre Institute in Warsaw.
email: dariusz.kosinski@uj.edu.pl
