Open AccessW kręgu Tadeusza Kudlińskiego: Wiesław Gorecki
Author(s) -
Michał Zdunik
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annales universitatis paedagogicae cracoviensis. studia historicolitteraria/annales academiae paedagogicae cracoviensis. studia historicolitteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2081-1853
pISSN - 1644-1885
DOI - 10.24917/20811853.18.16
Subject(s) - drama , modernism (music) , bourgeoisie , illusion , poetry , art , style (visual arts) , art history , realism , aesthetics , literature , psychology , politics , law , political science , neuroscience
Three one-act plays – The Elevator, The Rebellion and The Freud – written by Wiesław Gorecki are analysed in the paper. These plays were premiered in 1934 by a theatre group Mikroscena, founded by Tadeusz Kudliński. In my opinion, Wiesław Gorecki’s dramas are examples of modern aesthetics (as defined by Richard Sheppard). We can read these works as a poetic drama (The Elevator), the Ibsenesque psychological theatre (The Fraud) and a game with scenic illusion in the style of Pirandello (The Rebellion). Finally, I created a new term for Goreckis’ plays: “miniature, light and bourgeois modernism”.