How has acting changed? Hamlet in different interpretations.
During the workshop we will look at how theatrical acting has changed over time, taking one of the most important roles in the history of European theatre — Hamlet — as our starting point. We will meet this character in several versions: we will check how Stanisław Wyspiański thought about Hamlet, what Heiner Müller radically changed in his image, and how the most important Polish contemporary theatre directors worked with this role:
We will watch fragments of productions, talk about acting strategies, compare different ways of building the same character and consider how the language of the stage, the relationship with the audience and expectations of the actor have changed. An important element of the workshop will also be a practical part — participants will try to embody characters and experiment with different interpretations.
The workshop is an invitation to reflect on how theatre and acting respond to a changing world and why Hamlet, although still “the same”, becomes someone different each time.
📅 18.02
⏰ 17:30–20:30
👥 Number of participants: 20
✉️ Registration: seniorwizacja@gmail.com
Leader:
Katarzyna Niedurny – journalist, theatre scholar, theatre critic. Selector of the Interpretacje Festival of Directing Art and the Polityka Passports. In 2021 she was the laureate of the Andrzej Żurowski Competition for young theatre critics.
For two years she has co-hosted the Podcast about Theatre with Katarzyna Waligóra — a medium that accessibly tells the story of theatre’s history and present. She regularly collaborates with Dwutygodnik and Didaskalia. She also publishes in Gazeta Wyborcza, Czas Kultury and Tygodnik Przegląd. She is the editor of a collection of Polish dramas published in Romania, Rewolucje. Antologia polskiego teatru współczesnego. At the Theatre Academy in Warsaw she teaches classes on biographical research.
She is currently working on a biographical book about theatre critic Konstanty Puzyna.
The event is part of the scholarship project “Development of educational and training competencies and preparation of a workshop offer in the field of theatre education”, implemented thanks to the support of the European Union under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
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