Plovdiv

16.10.2025, 11:30

Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Pedagogy, New Building – University Theatre

Free admission

Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) is a Polish-born writer and playwright who resided for about 24 years in Argentina (1939–1963). His provocative novels and plays have hugely influenced European and world literature and theater. He disliked going to the theater, but over the last 50 years, his Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda, 1937) has become the most widely performed Polish play of all time in other countries and languages. 

Series of lectures by the American theater scholar and Gombrowicz expert Professor Allen J. Kuharski, Ph.D. (Swarthmore College):

• Witold Gombrowicz’s Theatrophobia: The Playwright and His Double
• Incubation and Improvisation: Devised Ensemble Physical Theater in the United States
  and Poland

& a theatrical-musical performance I Saw a Similar Desire in the Tumult (The Vice Versa of the Form) by the Argentinian artist and composer Javier Pittorino, followed by a conversation between the two of them.

Thanks to: Witold Gombrowicz in Bulgaria, Institute for Literature (BAS), Polish Insitute in Sofia, Theatre-Laboratory @lma @lter, St. Kl. Ohridski University of Sofia (Slavonic Studies; Classic and Modern Studies), Theatrical College “Luben Groys”, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo (Philological Studies), Paisii Hilendarski
University of Plovdiv (Philological Studies, Pedagogical Studies), New Bulgarian University (Center for Theory of Arts and Contemporary Art Practice), Sofia Literature and Translation House.