Kazimierz Braun: A progress toward a theatre of the community.
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Title
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Kazimierz Braun: A progress toward a theatre of the community.
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Identifier
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AAI9224854
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identifier
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9224854
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Creator
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Schlatter, James Francis.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Daniel Gerould
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Date
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1992
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | Biography
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Abstract
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This study examines the artistic career and the theatrical vision of Mr. Kazimierz Braun, one of the leading stage directors and thinkers of the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s in Poland. This study seeks to provide an overview of Mr. Braun's entire career in Poland, from the years of his training as a theatre director in Warsaw in the late fifties to the moment of his dismissal as Artistic Director of Wspolczesny Theatre in Wroclaw in 1984. The focus of this overview is the evolution of Mr. Braun's unique vision of theatre, which he came to call "the theatre of the community." Essentially, the theatre of the community seeks to bring actors and spectators together as social beings within a shared performance space to become mutual participants in the act of creating theatre. Through nearly three decades of work, Braun came to conceive of the performance space as at once physical, theatrical, social, and sacred, which is infused with meaning and significance by the coming together of actors and audience in the spirit of creative community.;A significant part of this study is devoted to Kazimierz Braun's work with the plays and theatrical scenarios of Tadeusz Rozewicz, one of Poland's most unorthodox and intellectually uncompromising poets and playwrights. Rozewicz describes his vision of theatre as "realistico-poetic," which seeks to suspend fragments of reality--biography, history, journalism, literature--within a theatrically charged field of historical and intellectual investigation. Between 1970 and 1984, Braun directed ten productions of Rozewicz's dramatic works for the stage and television in Poland, including several world premieres. Rozewicz was instrumental in helping Braun evolve his own vision of "a theatre of the community.".;Finally, this study attempts to locate Kazimierz Braun's work over twenty-five years within the larger context of historical and political crises in Poland. It also attempts to reconstruct some part of the life of the theatre in Poland during a period of tremendous vitality and innovation, and of confrontation with the authorities and with its own history as a national institution. This study offers a brief chapter in a much larger story of the struggles and victories of the Polish theatre, the Polish people, and their history which bound them together through four tumultuous postwar decades.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
