Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 50 No. 1, 2024.
Original scientific paper
Croato-Polish Theatre Relations in the Last Half a Century (1970-2020)
Leszek Małczak
orcid.org/0000-0002-0665-3606
; Šlesko sveučilište u Katowicama, Poljska
Abstract
The last fifty years in the history of Croatian-Polish literary and cultural relations (1970-2020) can be divided on the one hand into five smaller units that more or less coincide with the boundaries of the decades and on the other into two large sub-periods – the time of the second Yugoslavia and the time of sovereign and independent Croatia. Most lively from the point of view of the Polish reception of Croatian dramatic writing and theatre during the last half a century were the seventies, but one has to remark that this was above all due to Brešan’s incomparable Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja. The eighties were affected negatively by the war footing, the process of the collapse of communism, the economic crisis and the gradual disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the nineties by the Homeland War and the economic and social transition. The eighties were marked though by the return of Brešan to the theatrical scene after the ending of the war footing. In this decade Fadil Hadžić also stood out in terms of theatrical links. The nineties were the time of transition and the Homeland War, of profound crisis in mutual links and a time of change in the system of theatrical, literary and overall cultural cooperation. This was in terms of reception the most modest decade in the whole of the period under analysis; Slobodan Šnajder was the only author who left a mark on it. After 2000 Croato-Polish cultural and theatrical relations underwent a revival. In the first two decades of the 21st century in Polish reception for the first time women’s écriture appeared in drama and in the theatre and great controversies were excited in Polish society in the last ten years by Oliver Frljić with his staging of a Polish dramatic classic, while Miro Gavran was the most popular writer for the theatre after 1990.
Keywords
theatrical translation; dramatic translation; reception; Polish theatre; Croatian drama; Croatian literature; Croatian theatre
Hrčak ID:
316992
URI
Publication date:
8.5.2024.
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