Wyspianski - polish theatre
Stanisław Wyspianski – The Wedding
I assume that everyone, who ever got in contact with The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspianski, has also got in contact with the informations connected with the play. I mean, it is inevitable to come to know, that Wypianski’s The Wedding is based on real situation – wedding – which took place at the village of Bronowice near Cracow on November 1900. It is inevitable to come to know, that it was a wedding of Wyspianski’s fellow poet Lucjan Rydel with a peasant girl Jadwiga Mikołajczyk as it is inevitable to come to know that characters, which appear in the play got their prefigures in real persons, who attended the wedding ceremony. This background and also the (kind of) scandalous and provocative premiere, where people, who were part of the wedding could vividly see themselves in the play, is well-known for all readers. Wyspianski’s Wedding took place in the history of polish culture in the moment when the curtain went down after Chochols last words.
The Wedding is crucial work for polish culture in the modern age for its intake of breath of revolution on the polish stages. Even though the revolution has been made by the Meiningen theatre company, Ludwig Chroneg, André Antoine, Konstantin S. Stanislavski in case of new theatre staging going in contrast with romanticism and naturalism. But it was Wyspianski and his Wedding, who pioneered the modern play connected with the great theatre reform on polish stages. Still the fact of revolutionary wasn’t the primal intension. The content of the play – its themes, motives, message – stands far in front of it.
The fact Wyspianski was using all the methods of modern drama were due the message he needed to say. If we consider ‚revolution‘ as an awakening from lethargy, from routine thoughts, observing the world and giving it a new angle of perspective, Wyspianski was trying to wake up the nation from a romantic cult. He intend to lead Poles out of blindness caused by immanent looking to the
I assume that everyone, who ever got in contact with The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspianski, has also got in contact with the informations connected with the play. I mean, it is inevitable to come to know, that Wypianski’s The Wedding is based on real situation – wedding – which took place at the village of Bronowice near Cracow on November 1900. It is inevitable to come to know, that it was a wedding of Wyspianski’s fellow poet Lucjan Rydel with a peasant girl Jadwiga Mikołajczyk as it is inevitable to come to know that characters, which appear in the play got their prefigures in real persons, who attended the wedding ceremony. This background and also the (kind of) scandalous and provocative premiere, where people, who were part of the wedding could vividly see themselves in the play, is well-known for all readers. Wyspianski’s Wedding took place in the history of polish culture in the moment when the curtain went down after Chochols last words.
The Wedding is crucial work for polish culture in the modern age for its intake of breath of revolution on the polish stages. Even though the revolution has been made by the Meiningen theatre company, Ludwig Chroneg, André Antoine, Konstantin S. Stanislavski in case of new theatre staging going in contrast with romanticism and naturalism. But it was Wyspianski and his Wedding, who pioneered the modern play connected with the great theatre reform on polish stages. Still the fact of revolutionary wasn’t the primal intension. The content of the play – its themes, motives, message – stands far in front of it.
The fact Wyspianski was using all the methods of modern drama were due the message he needed to say. If we consider ‚revolution‘ as an awakening from lethargy, from routine thoughts, observing the world and giving it a new angle of perspective, Wyspianski was trying to wake up the nation from a romantic cult. He intend to lead Poles out of blindness caused by immanent looking to the