W kręgu Tadeusza Kudlińskiego: Wiesław Gorecki

Abstract

Three one-act plays – 'The Elevator', 'The Rebellion' and 'The Freud' – written by Wiesław Gorecki are analysed in the paper. These plays were premiered in 1934 by a theatre group Mikroscena, founded by Tadeusz Kudliński. In my opinion, Wiesław Gorecki’s dramas are examples of modern aesthetics (as defined by Richard Sheppard). We can read these works as a poetic drama ('The Elevator'), the Ibsenesque psychological theatre ('The Fraud') and a game with scenic illusion in the style of Pirandello ('The Rebellion'). Finally, I created a new term for Goreckis’ plays: 'miniature, light and bourgeois modernism'.

Keywords

• Kudliński
• poetic drama
• modernism