Shakespeare and usurpator. Peter Grushchinsky talks with Krzyshtof Varlikovsky

Director Kshishtof Varlikovsky is one of the most striking representatives of the modern Polish theater. He brought special fame to him the production of Shakespeare"s plays in Poland, Germany, France and Italy, in which he resolutely departed from universally recognized traditions and interpretations. Ten of these performances became the starting point in the director’s conversations with the famous Polish theater critic and playwright Peter Grushchinsky. These interviews were included in Shakespeare and Uzurpator. But they are talking about the Nyshkspirov performances of Varlikovsky, and about plays that he did not put. At the same time, the conversation is not limited to theatrical frames (interlocutors, in particular, speak of a Polish society, about the times of transformation), but the main thing in the book is the thoughts that the texts of Shakespeare can tell us today. The Russian edition is a new version of this book, for which Peter Grushchinsky wrote a special preface.
Compared to the Polish edition, the book is supplemented by the head of the famous performance "African tales of Shakespeare". For the first time, monologues from the performance "African tales of Shakespeare", written by Vazhode Muawad, were published in a separate circulation