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The article attempts to look at the nativity play in a genological context. The author's aim is to broaden the context of reading this form of the show. It represents a polemical position towards the unambiguous linking of the nativity play with folk culture. Instead, he suggests looking at it in the context of such forms as literary mimes, mysteries, comedy dell'arte and some mass spectacles. The consequence of this type of considerations is noticing the characteristic, according to the author, tension between the mystery and the farce, sacrum and profanum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on the connections between the Polish drama of the interwar period with such stage performances as a nativity play, farce, cabaret, and circus. The text attempts to point to the possible inquiries into this important problem of the dramaturgy of the 1920s and 1930s. The author concentrates on Adam Polewka himself and his political farse plays, especially the record of Igrce w Barbakanie, a performance prepared for the Cracow Days in 1938. She reads critically the introduction to the post-war edition of this text. In her opinion, this authorial commentary includes precious information about such stage forms of the interwar period as a farse play and circus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the coexistence of two phenomena in the drama of the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. By combining affect and convention, the author seeks to point out the dramatic use of the forgotten plot schemes, characters, and construction solutions, which still remain strongly preserved in the cultural memory of the viewers. These were highly characteristic of the comedy dell’arte, the Russian balagan, which was at the time regaining its popularity in Italy, as well as of the Polish fairy tale. The authors used them in order to evoke in the viewer a certain kind of affectation. This, in turn, allowed them to build ties with the audience based on completely new rules of participation, which gave rise to the theatrical phenomena characteristic of the second half of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A dramatic fairy tale is the expression of a specific historical moment. At the turn of the 19th and 20th century original forms of dialogue with tradition and new ways of developing literature were searched at the same time. It seems that the dramatic tale -- absent in most compendiums devoted to the literature of modernism -- is one of the best examples of unstable forms that reflect in their structure the dilemmas accompanying the writing at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. What matters here is a specific type of folklore and links with the fairy-tale play and commedia dell' arte. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]