Existing Within and Beyond Time: "Capri-the Island of Fugitives" by Krystian Lupa

Małgorzata Budzowska

malgorzata.budzowska@uni.lodz.pl
University of Lodz (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1953-2088

Abstract

The proposed article ponders upon Krystian Lupa’s Capri—the Island of Fugitives (2019), an original production staged at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw that brings together two of Curzio Malaparte’s prose books: Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). By focusing on the parts of the production that adapt Kaputt, the article scrutinizes scenes produced by the live performance and the virtual projections in order to describe and explain how theatrical expression is enriched by such a juxtaposition. This analysis uses the theoretical frameworks of unnatural narratology (Jan Alber et al.), postdramatic durational aesthetics (Hans-Thies Lehmann), and the idea of the virtual double (Matthew Causey). The primary argument relies on the specific temporality emerging from the Lupa’s performance that enables spectators to feel existence within and beyond time. Furthermore, the study investigates the overarching idea of the performance, recognized by the strategy of foregrounding the thematic that oscillates within the problematics of human cruelty.


Keywords:

Krystian Lupa, temporality, durational aesthetics, multimedia in theater

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2021-06-23

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Budzowska, M. (2021) “Existing Within and Beyond Time: ‘Capri-the Island of Fugitives’ by Krystian Lupa”, Pamiętnik Teatralny, 70(2), pp. 11–36. doi: 10.36744/pt.667.

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Małgorzata Budzowska 
malgorzata.budzowska@uni.lodz.pl
University of Lodz Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1953-2088

Assistant Professor at Drama and Theatre Department, Institute of Conteporary Culture, University of Lodz, Early Career Associate in the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at University of Oxford. PhD in Classics and MA in Theatre and Drama Theory. Author of two books: Phaedra. Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca, and Racine (Peter Lang 2012) and Sceniczne metamorfozy mitu. Teatr polski XXI wieku w perspektywie kulturowej (Lodz Univeristy Press 2018), concerning reception of ancient drama in literature and theatre, and author and co-author of various chapters and articles on drama and theatre. Her main research interests include classical reception in theatre and the concept of the tragic and the political in contemporary Polish theatre. 



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