Barba and Bjørneboe: Letters Full of Dreams

Ewa Partyga

ewa.partyga@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7929-2875

Abstract

The article focuses on selected motifs of the correspondence between Eugenio Barba and Jens Bjørneboe in 1962–1964. At the time, the artists shared a plan to invigorate the Norwegian theatre life by founding a professional journal and an experimental theatre company. One of the most significant impulses in their quest had been Barba’s Polish experience and his reflexion on the history and contemporary development of Polish theatre that he summed up in the essay first published in Vinduet in 1963, which we now republish in Pamiętnik Teatralny in Polish translation.


Keywords:

Eugenio Barba, Jens Bjørneboe, Polish theater after 1945

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Published
2017-06-30

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Partyga, E. (2017) “Barba and Bjørneboe: Letters Full of Dreams”, Pamiętnik Teatralny, 66(1/2), pp. 5–10. doi: 10.36744/pt.1193.

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Ewa Partyga 
ewa.partyga@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7929-2875

Ewa Partyga - Professor of Theater Studies in the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, and a lecturer at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. The editor of the series Studia Komparatystyczne Instytutu Sztuki PAN. Teatr. Sztuka. Kultura [“Comparative Studies of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Theatre. Art. Culture”] and Editor-in-Chief of Pamiętnik Teatralny. Her research interests include cultural history of drama and theater in comparative perspective (focusing on 19th-21st centuries); Scandinavian drama and theater, with an emphasis on Norwegian drama and theater.



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