Dyrektorka: Przyczynek do (nie)biografii Wandy Wróblewskiej

• Main Author: Piotr Morawski
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2020-11-01
• Series: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Subjects: wanda wróblewska; krystyna berwińska; teatr ziemi mazowieckiej; touring theatre; theatre historiography; women’s history; feminist institution; speculative history
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/426

This article analyses the rules of including female theatre managers in theatre history. A speculative biographical profile of Wanda Wróblewska, the founder and manager of Teatr Ziemi Mazowieckiej [Masovian Land Theatre], serves here as a tool for revealing and problematizing the expectations towards female narratives that are intended as an alternative to the patriarchal model dominant in historiography. Like most travelling theatres, Teatr Ziemi Mazowieckiej was run by women – a fact that invites a feminist perspective into the discussion of the theatre’s history. It can be easily inscribed in an alternative historiographic model that emphasizes building relations with the audience and thetheatre’s social activity, while refraining from singling out masterpieces or constructing artistic hierarchies. Wróblewska’s speculative biography is also a catalyst for the question about the possibility of going beyond the narrative, which always becomes a form of power discourse.