Conference: An Enchanted Land, with Visions from Beyond

Join us for “An Enchanted Land, with Visions from Beyond: The Theater of Stanisław Wyspiański”, a two-day conference exploring the legacy of the great Polish playwright across performance, translation, and adaptation.

 

Dates: Friday, February 28 – Saturday, March 1, 2025

Locations: Humanities Quadrangle & Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM)

Full Schedule: https://buff.ly/41611ew

 

Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907) was a Polish playwright, poet, designer, painter, and theater visionary. Working primarily in Kraków, he proposed a new Polish theater, one in dialogue with the world, that was both admired and misunderstood in his short lifetime. Despite his significant production history—not only in Poland, where his work has found enduring relevance, but to some extent, abroad—Wyspiański remains less known in the United States.

 

Incorporating discussions with scholars and artists from Poland and North America, the conference centers performance, translation, and adaptation as a means to encourage greater awareness of Wyspiański’s legacy. The program includes a screening of the celebrated film version of his play The Wedding, directed by Andrzej Wajda. There will also be readings from this and other verse dramas in new English-language translations by Lauren Dubowski, including a staged reading of his one-woman piece The Death of Ophelia.

 

Generously Sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center. Partners: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM)