Monography profile

Book type: edited book

Published: 13. 6. 2022

Edition year: 2018

Pages: 214

Language: English

ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (print), ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (online)

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In: Theatre as a Value-based Discourse Slovak Theatre and Contemporary European Theatre Culture: Conference Proceedings from the International Scientific Conference 5th and 6th of October 2017 Bratislava, Slovakia

This study examines the transformation of creative approaches in the work of the Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek and its influence on the values that his works point to. The transformation of the thinking of society and changes in the political climate and social conditions led to a diverse grasp of the absurdity of everyday life. However, the playwright’s work did not stop at the production of one-acts and plays influenced by absurd drama; it continued in the way of revealing real facts and characters and in the effort to achieve the internal motives of both the characters as well as the functioning of social laws. This article also focuses on the approach to values in Mrożek’s creative process. How did he perceive the sphere of values? Mrożek was a playwright who systematically worked, especially in the first period of his work, with irony, paraphrasing, and the absurdity of situations. A logical question therefore arises: Does the relativization of values open a space for new values, or is it just his manifest and protest opposing something and somebody without suggesting a solution, a way out, or even hope?

Pages: 73 - 83

Language: English

Edition year: 2018

values, absurd drama, co-ordinated absurdity, theatre of the absurd, Central Europe

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