The “Auto Sacramental” in Search of a New Theatrical Space: Notes on the Presence of the Baroque Genre in Polish Theatre

Abstract

The paper focuses on the question of the recovery—for different socio-cultural and linguistic contexts—of the dramatic genre auto sacramental in all its complexity. The article aims to review the history of the theatrical reception of this genre in Poland in the 20th and 21st centuries. It also addresses the question of the translation of Calderonian texts as an indispensable requirement for intercultural dialogue. The paper investigates the place that the representations of the auto sacramental occupied in Polish theatre, their artistic quality and the aesthetic solutions that they propose.