Guarding the Theater of Inconsistencies - on several, not just theatrical attempts to read Tadeusz Różewicz's "Straż porządkowa" ("Security Guard")

Abstract

The article is a contribution to the reflection on the contemporary reception of Tadeusz Różewicz's drama, based on one of his works included in the Theatre of Inconsistency – Straż porządkowa ("Security Guard"). Based on several theater projects, the subsequent statements of reviewers, and historical and literary material, the author notices an impasse in reading and reception of Różewicz's "open theater". Opinions and actions of experts have been, somewhat perversely, confronted with ideas of interpretation of non-professional audience: university and secondary school students. A small surveyed sample, which is a kind of socio-cultural experiment, will note the change (perhaps justified by the generation) that occurred in the rules of reception of Straż porządkowa.