Aleksandr Węgierki Drama Theatre, Białystok

Drama Theatre

Teatr Dramatyczny im. Aleksandra Węgierki w Białymstoku
Main entrance to the theatre
Address	12 Elektryczna Street Białystok Poland
Coordinates	53°07′47.51″N 23°10′9.47″E
Type	Modernism
Opened	1938
Years active	1938 - present

Aleksandr Węgierki Drama Theatre in Białystok (Polish: Teatr Dramatyczny im. Aleksandra Węgierki w Białymstoku) is a drama theatre in Białystok.

History

The first performance in the theater building (then the Józef Piłsudski Municipal Theater) was played on December 27, 1938. The Grodno Traveling Theater group performed on stage, and the official opening in September 1939 was to be made by Marshal of Poland Edward Śmigły-Rydz. In 1940, after Białystok was formally annexed to the Byelorussian SSR, the Soviet authorities nationalized the facility and transformed it into the Polish State Theater of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. Its director, Aleksander Węgierko, established the first permanent group consisting mainly of actors from Warsaw stages. The performances include: Iryna Borodowska, Jacek Woszczerowicz, Seweryn Butrym, Tola Mankiewiczówna and Anatol Szałowski. Performances were held in Polish. Works of Polish and foreign playwrights were exhibited, including Friedrich Schiller's "Intrigue and Love", Mrs. Dulska's "Morality" and "Gabriela Maliczewska" by Gabriela Zapolska, "Dożywocie" by Aleksander Fredro, "Kordian" by Juliusz Słowacki, "Wedding" and "November Night" by Stanisław Wyspiański.

In 1944, once again in Bialystok, a permanent acting team was formed, consisting of: Joanna Błońska, Halina Kossobudzka, Halina Czengery, Lidia Zamkow, Marian Meller, Jan Świderski, and Czesław Wołłąko. Bialystok actors joined them: Rena Ruszczyc, Władysław Szumowicz, Władysław Szypulski, Mikołaj Aleksandrowicz, and Witold Różycki. They were the ones who prepared the premiere of Stefan Żeromski's performance "Stefan Filled for me" on September 22, 1944. In 1945 Hanka Bielicka, Igor Śmiałowski, Jerzy Duszyński and Zygmunt K Częstowicz joined the team.

The golden periods of the Białystok scene were the director of the actor and director Bronisław Orlicz and two directors of Jerzy Zegalski, who proposed an ambitious repertoire with the Polish romantic drama, the premiere of "Belzebub's Sonata" by Witkacy and plays by Sławomir Mrożek. Zegalski directed, among others "Kordian" by Juliusz Słowacki, Krystyna Meissner "The School of Women" by Wojciech Bogusławski, Izabella Cywińska prepared the premiere of "Caretaker" Harold Pinter, and Roman Kordziński directed "Czajka" Chekhov.

External links

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