{"id":12220,"date":"2024-06-10T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=12220"},"modified":"2024-07-09T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T17:10:18","slug":"slawomir-mrozek-with-tamara-trojanowska-encounters-with-polish-and-ukrainian-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2024\/06\/10\/slawomir-mrozek-with-tamara-trojanowska-encounters-with-polish-and-ukrainian-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek with Tamara Trojanowska \u2013 Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S4E6 and all video recordings are available on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLKjB8FikQEom5PaNULVQQCyN2oOItiCR8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hXRbQs6QVSM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Encounters with Polish Literature<\/strong>&nbsp;is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host&nbsp;<strong>David A. Goldfarb<\/strong>&nbsp;will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/encounters-with-polish-literature\">More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek<\/strong> (1930-2013) was a satirist best remembered for his absurdist plays, humorous stories, fables, cartoons and drawings. Like many writers of his generation, he was caught up in the optimistic progress toward Communism after World War II, but was soon disillusioned and became a key dissenting voice after the death of Stalin in 1953, especially during the 1960s and \u201870s in the years leading up to the Solidarity uprising. His play, <em>Tango<\/em> (1964), about the conflict of generations, was his breakout success and has since entered the canon of twentieth-century European theater. His work reflects the influences of Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (\u201cWitkacy\u201d) and Witold Gombrowicz who were discussed in the first season of this series, as well as Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski, Tadeusz Kantor, Jean Anouilh, and Samuel Beckett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, we focus on two of his major plays, <em>Tango<\/em> and <em>Emigrants <\/em>(1974) in light of his biography, his provincial origins and life abroad, and his historical context from the Thaw to the end of Communism in Poland, and what meaning these works may have in the post-Communist era. This episode and the next one on Tadeusz Konwicki consider the coded language and use of allegory in this period while censorship was still in effect, but there was a thriving underground and \u00e9migr\u00e9 publishing industry known as the \u201csecond circuit\u201d (<em>drugi obieg<\/em>), and writers had a great deal to say that could not legally appear in the official press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek in English Translation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Ambassador<\/em>. Tr. S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek and Ralph Mannheim. Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre. Playscripts in Translation Series, No. 6. New York: A CASTA Publication, 1984. Check research libraries for availability, possibly through interlibrary loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/177673\/the-elephant-by-mrozek-slawomir\/9780141193045\"><em>The Elephant<\/em><\/a>. London: Penguin Modern Classics UK, 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed. with an Intro by Daniel Gerould. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/the-mrozek-reader\/\">The Mro\u017cek Reader<\/a>. <\/em>Tr. Konrad Syrop, Nicholas Bethell, Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, Teresa Dzieduszycka, Henry Beissel, and Jacek Laskowski. New York: Grove Press, 2004. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780394171999\/Plays-Slawomir-Mrozek-Slawomire-0394171993\/plp\">Six plays by S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek: The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey, Enchanted Night, The Police, Out at Sea, Charlie, The Party<\/a><\/em>. New York: Grove Press, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780394482804\/Striptease-Repeat-performance-prophets-Three-0394482808\/plp\">Striptease, Repeat Performance, The Prophets: Three Plays<\/a>. <\/em>Tr. Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, and Teresa Dzieduszycka. New York: Grove Press, 1972. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780394179339\/Three-Plays-Striptease-Tango-Vatzlav-9780394176\/plp\">Striptease, Tango, Vatzlav: Three Plays<\/a>.<\/em> Tr. Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, and Teresa Dzieduszycka. New York: Grove Press, 1981. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/Trojanowska.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12228\" style=\"width:286px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/Trojanowska.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/Trojanowska-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/Trojanowska-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/Trojanowska-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A graduate of the Drama Centre at the University of Toronto (Ph.D.) and of Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w (MA), <strong>Tamara Trojanowska<\/strong> has also formerly held an Oxford University scholarship and an internship at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She has taught at universities in Poland, Canada, and the United States, returning to the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 1998. Since then, she has directed the Polish Language and Literature Program at the Slavic Department, strengthening its profile and presence in North America, the University College Drama Program (2008-2012), and the Center for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (2017-2021). She now serves as Vice-Dean of Faculty and Academic Life in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Her current research focuses on the intersections of 20<sup>th<\/sup> and 21st-century drama and theatre with history and religious thought, highlighting issues of identity and transgression. Her latest book publication, co-edited with Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska and Przemys\u0142aw Czapli\u0144ski and entitled&nbsp;<em>A History of Polish Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on 20th and 21st Centuries<\/em>, includes her extensive analysis of transgressive practices in Polish drama and theatre. She has also contributed a chapter on this subject to&nbsp;<em>Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context&nbsp;<\/em>(eds. Magda Romanska and Cathleen Cioffi, 2020), with her investigations of the dramatic and the sacred resulting in a new selection of and an extensive introduction to the plays of Roman Brandstaetter (<em>Dzie\u0144 gniewu<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Dramaty,<\/em>&nbsp;2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Bartek Remisko, Executive Producer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David A. Goldfarb, Host &amp; Producer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalia Iyudin, Producer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-1\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Tamara Trojanowska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image courtesy of Tamara Trojanowska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead image: S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek by \u00a9 M.\u0141epecki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image courtesy of Wydawnictwo Literackie <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-1024x224.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10747\" style=\"width:434px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-1024x224.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-768x168.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-1536x336.png 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT.png 1614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM.png 972w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM-768x373.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S4E6 and all video recordings are available on&nbsp;our YouTube. Encounters with Polish Literature&nbsp;is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host&nbsp;David A. 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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series and the timeline.\\nS\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek (1930-2013) was a satirist best remembered for his absurdist plays, humorous stories, fables, cartoons and drawings. Like many writers of his generation, he was caught up in the optimistic progress toward Communism after World War II, but was soon disillusioned and became a key dissenting voice after the death of Stalin in 1953, especially during the 1960s and \u201870s in the years leading up to the Solidarity uprising. His play, Tango (1964), about the conflict of generations, was his breakout success and has since entered the canon of twentieth-century European theater. His work reflects the influences of Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (\u201cWitkacy\u201d) and Witold Gombrowicz who were discussed in the first season of this series, as well as Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski, Tadeusz Kantor, Jean Anouilh, and Samuel Beckett.\\nIn this episode, we focus on two of his major plays, Tango and Emigrants (1974) in light of his biography, his provincial origins and life abroad, and his historical context from the Thaw to the end of Communism in Poland, and what meaning these works may have in the post-Communist era. This episode and the next one on Tadeusz Konwicki consider the coded language and use of allegory in this period while censorship was still in effect, but there was a thriving underground and \u00e9migr\u00e9 publishing industry known as the \u201csecond circuit\u201d (drugi obieg), and writers had a great deal to say that could not legally appear in the official press.\\nS\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek in English Translation:\\nThe Ambassador. Tr. S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek and Ralph Mannheim. Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre. Playscripts in Translation Series, No. 6. New York: A CASTA Publication, 1984. Check research libraries for availability, possibly through interlibrary loan.\\nThe Elephant. London: Penguin Modern Classics UK, 2010. \\nEd. with an Intro by Daniel Gerould. The Mro\u017cek Reader. Tr. Konrad Syrop, Nicholas Bethell, Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, Teresa Dzieduszycka, Henry Beissel, and Jacek Laskowski. New York: Grove Press, 2004. \\nSix plays by S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek: The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey, Enchanted Night, The Police, Out at Sea, Charlie, The Party. New York: Grove Press, 1967.\\nStriptease, Repeat Performance, The Prophets: Three Plays. Tr. Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, and Teresa Dzieduszycka. New York: Grove Press, 1972. \\nStriptease, Tango, Vatzlav: Three Plays. Tr. Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, and Teresa Dzieduszycka. New York: Grove Press, 1981. \\nA graduate of the Drama Centre at the University of Toronto (Ph.D.) and of Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w (MA), Tamara Trojanowska has also formerly held an Oxford University scholarship and an internship at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She has taught at universities in Poland, Canada, and the United States, returning to the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 1998. Since then, she has directed the Polish Language and Literature Program at the Slavic Department, strengthening its profile and presence in North America, the University College Drama Program (2008-2012), and the Center for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (2017-2021). She now serves as Vice-Dean of Faculty and Academic Life in the Faculty of Arts and Science. 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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series and the timeline.\nS\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek (1930-2013) was a satirist best remembered for his absurdist plays, humorous stories, fables, cartoons and drawings. Like many writers of his generation, he was caught up in the optimistic progress toward Communism after World War II, but was soon disillusioned and became a key dissenting voice after the death of Stalin in 1953, especially during the 1960s and \u201870s in the years leading up to the Solidarity uprising. His play, Tango (1964), about the conflict of generations, was his breakout success and has since entered the canon of twentieth-century European theater. 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S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek and Ralph Mannheim. Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre. Playscripts in Translation Series, No. 6. New York: A CASTA Publication, 1984. Check research libraries for availability, possibly through interlibrary loan.\nThe Elephant. London: Penguin Modern Classics UK, 2010. \nEd. with an Intro by Daniel Gerould. The Mro\u017cek Reader. Tr. Konrad Syrop, Nicholas Bethell, Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, Teresa Dzieduszycka, Henry Beissel, and Jacek Laskowski. New York: Grove Press, 2004. \nSix plays by S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek: The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey, Enchanted Night, The Police, Out at Sea, Charlie, The Party. New York: Grove Press, 1967.\nStriptease, Repeat Performance, The Prophets: Three Plays. Tr. Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, and Teresa Dzieduszycka. New York: Grove Press, 1972. \nStriptease, Tango, Vatzlav: Three Plays. Tr. Lola Gruenthal, Ralph Mannheim, and Teresa Dzieduszycka. 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