Tekst jako obiekt. Panel dramatopisarzy z udziałem Julii Holewińskiej, Marzeny Sadochy i Artura Pałygi

Abstract

The playwright’s panel took place at the Faculty Council Hall of the Department of Philology of the University of Silesia in Katowice as an event accompanying the national academic conference Writing for the Stage – Narrations of Modern Theatre. Among the invited guests were Julia Holewińska, Marzena Sadocha i Artur Pałyga. The audience and the interlocutors were represented by the conference participants and the academic community. The discussion concentrated around the issues connected with contemporary writing for theatre, and it concerned, among different subjects, the role of the theatrical text in the process of creating a stage production, the ways of writing for the stage and the factors determining various authorial strategies. The playwrights attempted to reflect over their own roles as artists, to define their understanding of theatre, which influences the employed artistic strategies and the manner of working with the text. They shared their thoughts on the aesthetic changes in contemporary theatre, where an increasingly greater role is played by fine arts and media and the directors more and more often share the responsibility for the staging with their co-workers. The discussion also raised the motif of dramatic manifestos, which, once published by playwrights as separate texts, are now woven into the works written for the stage.