L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre<\/em> (Donkey playing the lyre<\/em>) \u2013 a legendary script by Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka, which enchanted Wojciech Jerzy Has and became his last unexecuted film project. Kuku\u0142czanka\u2019s play is a \u2018total work of art\u2019 \u2013 a journey in time and space, full of surprising encounters, reaching back to the tradition of Socratic dialogues. The structure of the play combines ludic elements in the spirit of commedia dell\u2019arte<\/em> with an erudite message; the spoken words are quotations or paraphrases from specific writings and literary works: the Bible, the Koran, the ancient epic Gilgamesh<\/em>, literary classics. The result is a philosophical morality play, a spectacular metaphor of human destiny. Alongside two mythical lovers wandering through history, dozens of historical figures appear on stage, arguing about social theories, the organisation of the state or the role of chance in life; Plato argues with Hitler, Seneca with Machiavelli, Montaigne with Gilgamesh. The myth of eternal love clashes with a chain of historical cataclysms: the chaos of wars, the violence of revolutions; scenes of a lively ball intertwine with a funeral procession \u2013 as in the medieval fight between Carnival and Lent. The L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre<\/em> was staged and broadcasted by radio France Culture, and plans for a theatre production with psychedelic stage set and costumes designed by Jan Sawka were under way; work on Has\u2019 film was interrupted by the onset of the martial law in Poland in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The publication of this book was a great dream of Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka who, however, did not live to see its completion; Jan Sawka and Wojciech Jerzy Has have passed away, too \u2013 but the traces of their joint project remain: a screenplay, a radio play, ambitious plans. Our book, published in French, as is the author\u2019s version of L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre<\/em>, is dedicated to this legend. Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka\u2019s script and memoirs are accompanied by essays by Krystyna Czerni and Tadeusz Lubelski explaining the phenomenon of this unexecuted project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka<\/strong> (1933\u20132020) was an eminent translator and film producer, circulating for years between France and Poland, active in France under the pseudonym Koukou Chanska. Associated with the theatre community, she collaborated with the editorial board of the biweekly Teatr<\/em> (Theatre), and translated into Polish the works by Jean Anouilh, Henry de Montherlant and Georges Neveux. It is to her that we owe the first French premieres of the plays of the Polish playwrights: Witold Gombrowicz, Jerzy Szaniawski, Karol Wojty\u0142a and by Witkacy, in whose reception and popularisation in France Kuku\u0142czanka was most actively engaged, having published translations of his plays and preparing radio programmes devoted to him. As a film producer and organiser of film festivals, she worked with the eminent film directors Wojciech Jerzy Has, Jerzy Kawalerowicz and Roman Pola\u0144ski. Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka died in 2020 in Paris, taking active part in the work on this book until the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jan Sawka<\/strong> (1946\u20132012) \u2013 Polish visual artist, from 1977 active in the United States. An outstanding graphic artist, illustrator and stage designer, before leaving the country he co-created the alternative trend of student culture, being one of the pillars of Polish counterculture at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. His designs were distinguished by their characteristic contrasting colours, simplified forms, stylised lettering and fluid contours \u2013 drawing on the aesthetics of pop art and Art Nouveau. Sawka achieved particular mastery in the design of posters and stage decorations, in collaboration with the STU Theatre and \u2018Kalambur\u2019 Theatre in Poland, and with American off-Broadway theatres, the Samuel Beckett Theater in New York, or The Harold Clurman Theater in Michigan. While designing spectacular sets, Sawka remained a traditional graphic artist and prolific painter \u2013 constantly experimenting with technique and testing the boundaries of disciplines, creating multi-layered banners, multimedia projections and monumental set designs. In 1976, while in Paris, he designed the costumes and around 70 mock-ups for the theatrical staging of Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka\u2019s play L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre<\/em> (Donkey playing the lyre<\/em>) \u2013 and it is these very designs that have been reproduced in the present book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J\u00f3zef Grabski<\/strong> Koukou Chanska<\/strong> Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka Koukou Chanska<\/strong> Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka Tadeusz Lubelski<\/strong> Krystyna Czerni<\/strong> Projets de theatre de Jan Sawka<\/p>\n\n\n\n Index des noms<\/p>\n\n\n\n Orders can be placed via email irsa@irsa.com.pl.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre’ \u2013 a legendary script by Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka, which enchanted Wojciech Jerzy Has and became his last unexecuted film project. 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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nCONTENTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre<\/em>, Wojciech Has et Jan Sawka. La destinee d\u2019une oeuvre<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rencontres avec Wojciech Has<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre<\/em>. Suite en 25 moments<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Un film non-accompli<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019Esprit de Witkacy. Projets de theatre de Jan Sawka pour L\u2019\u00c2ne qui joue de la lyre<\/em> de Jadwiga Kuku\u0142czanka (1976)<\/p>\n\n\n\n