No Calm After the Storm. A Decade of "The Tempest" in Polish Theatres (2012–2021)

Agnieszka Romanowska

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.28.11

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Agnieszka Romanowska Jagiellonian University, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4659-4521

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https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.28.11

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Shakespeare, 'The Tempest', Polish theatre, adaptation, theatre seasons 2012–2021

Abstract

The article discusses twelve productions based on The Tempest shown in Polish theatres in the years 2012-21, a decade whose challenges included escalation of the migration crisis, increasing climate change, social and political unrest around much of the globe, and the covid pandemic, but which was also marked by important Shakespearean anniversaries. In order to inspect the play’s significance for contemporary Polish audiences the productions are scrutinised in relation to four categories of interrelated issues: modification of characters, depiction of suspended reality connected with sleep, dreaming, memory and recollection, references to current social and political challenges, and employment of the play’s meta-artistic potential. The productions’ interpretative tendencies reveal a number of common denominators which are analysed with an aim of explaining why, in today’s Poland, the possibility of reconciliation and return to some form of re-established order that the playwright contemplates is seen as very difficult, if not impossible.

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Author Biography

Agnieszka Romanowska, Jagiellonian University, Poland

teaches literature in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests include literary and theatrical reception of Shakespeare, drama translation, and adaptation of literature. She published books on the theatrical potential of Shakespeare’s dramatic text in translation (Hamlet po polsku, 2005), Polish poet-translators (Za głosem tłumacza, 2017) and articles on Shakespeare translated and staged in Poland. She is co-editor of Przekładaniec. A Journal of Literary Translation and member of the European Shakespeare Research Association.

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