The Theater of Andrzej Wajda (Hardcover)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Andrzej Wajda: an artistic chronology; 1 Introduction: artistic principles and the Polish scene; 2 Stylistic experimentation: from A Hatful of Rain to Play Strindberg; 3. Andrzej Wajda's 'total theatre': The Possessed, November Night and The Danton Affair; 4. The dilemmas of liberty: Abandoned by Reason and The Emigrants; 5. Madness, love and death: Nastasya Filippovna and Crime and Punishment; 6. A reckoning with the past: Conversations with the Executioner and As the Days Pass, As the Years Pass; 7. Towards a theatre of politics: Hamlet, Antigone and Easter Vigil; 8. Summing up: the theatre of Andrzej Wajda; Epilogue; Notes; Index.