{"id":21695,"date":"2020-06-21T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/publikacje\/chorwacki-hit-w-schylkowym-prl-u-czyli-co-ma-szekspir-do-balkanow\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:25:52","slug":"chorwacki-hit-w-schylkowym-prl-u-czyli-co-ma-szekspir-do-balkanow","status":"publish","type":"publikacje","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/publikacje\/chorwacki-hit-w-schylkowym-prl-u-czyli-co-ma-szekspir-do-balkanow\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatian hit in declining PRL, or what Shakespeare has for the Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The play was translated into Polish by Stanis\u0142aw Kaszy\u0144ski, a longtime professor at the University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, and an outstanding theater scientist. At the end of the 1950s, Kaszy\u0144ski taught Polish at the University of Belgrade for three years. It is thanks to him that Ivo Bre\u0161an became such a well-known Yugoslav author in Poland. However, it was not this performance that made him popular in our country. In 1971, Bre\u0161an wrote a Hamlet Performance in the village of G\u0142ucha Dolna<\/em>, which was staged in Poland for the first time four years later at the Lubuski Theater in Zielona G\u00f3ra, becoming a real hit on our stages. Over the next six years, until 1981, there were as many as twelve premieres, among others on the stages of Szczecin, Warsaw, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Gda\u0144sk, Elbl\u0105g, Kalisz, Olsztyn and Krak\u00f3w. Only the first performance in Zielona G\u00f3ra (played 62 times) was watched by over 16,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Croatian play was most popularized by Olga Lipi\u0144ska, who made its TV version in 1985 (aired only in 1987) with an excellent cast – with Janusz Gajos, Stanis\u0142awa Celi\u0144ska, Janusz Rewi\u0144ski, Jerzy Turek, Adam Ferency and Sylwester Maciejewski. The performance was included in the elite collection of productions – the Golden Hundred of the Television Theater. I remember very well the laughter of the audience filling the hall of the Provincial Cultural Center in Przemy\u015bl, when, as a high school student, I had the opportunity to watch the Performance as part of the Przemyska Theater Spring (an annual festival – a review of the best theaters from all over Poland) in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is Bre\u0161an’s art so popular in the People’s Republic of Poland<\/em>? Mainly due to the political message smuggled under the guise of grotesque content. For people living in the realities of practical communism of those years and accustomed to “chronic dualism”, that is, a kind of torn existence between the unofficial private sphere and the official correct – the only systemically correct reality – the allusions were all too clear. For this reason, the premiere of a Hamlet Production in the village of G\u0142ucha Dolna<\/em> at the Warsaw Theater in Wola in 1976 became not only an artistic event, but above all a social and political sensation. Especially since the role of Mata Bukarica – a party man and a nasty creature – was played by Tadeusz \u0141omnicki, director of the theater, one of the most outstanding Polish actors, but also a very attentive member of the PZPR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boris Bu\u0107an, plakat do spektaklu\u00a0\u201eUroczysty bankiet w przedsi\u0119biorstwie pogrzebowym”, 1982
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What’s the thing? The action of the play takes place in a production cooperative in a sunken village, but with its own local apparatus of party power. The cooperative collective, led by the ambitious and despotic Bukarica, decides to stage a theatrical performance – Hamlet by William Shakespeare in an adaptation of the local teacher \u0160kunca, which is to adapt the Shakespearean version to the intellectual level of the inhabitants of the village of Dalmatian Zag\u00f3rze. This causes a number of complications and a change of action that begins to resemble the plot of the English prototype. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ivo Bre\u0161an was born in 1936. He graduated from Slavic studies at the University of Zagreb. For years he worked as a teacher in a gymnasium in \u0160ibenik. In addition to theater dramas, he has also written film and TV scripts as well as numerous novels. He passed away three years ago at the age of 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although his other plays have also been staged in Polish theaters, none of them beat the extraordinary success of the Hamlet Performance in the village of G\u0142ucha Dolna.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ivo Bre\u0161an<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition \u201cBoris Bu\u0107an. Posters\u201d<\/a> was on display in the medieval cellars of the International Cultural Center in Krakow from July 2 to August 16, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition by Boris Bu\u0107an, presented in the historic cellars of the ICC, featured a poster for the performance of Ivo Bre\u0161an\u00a0A ceremonial banquet at a funeral home, staged in 1982 on the stage of the Croatian National Theater in Split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21639,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"kategoria_publikacje":[114],"tagi_publikacje":[91,94],"seria":[115],"class_list":["post-21695","publikacje","type-publikacje","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria_publikacje-artykuly","tagi_publikacje-architecture-and-art","tagi_publikacje-heritage-protection-and-management","seria-zlap-dystans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacje\/21695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacje"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikacje"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacje\/21695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25289,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacje\/21695\/revisions\/25289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategoria_publikacje","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategoria_publikacje?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"tagi_publikacje","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagi_publikacje?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"seria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seria?post=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}