Fortinbras jői end täis : ja teisi näidendeid (Fortinbras się upił; Polowanie na karaluchy; Antygona w Nowym Jorku), Laiuse: H. Lindepuu: Jauker Grupp OÜ, 2006.
French:
My sweet Raskolnikov et autres récits (My sweet Raskolnikow), przeł . Jean-Yves Erhel. Montricher: Editions Noir sur Blanc, 1989.
La grève (Moc truchleje), transl. Valentine Verdier. Paris: O. Orban, 1982.
La quatrième soeur (Czwarta siostra), transl. Kinga i Klara Wyrzykowska. Paris: L'avant-scène. Théâtre; no 1153, 2004.
Antigone à New York [Texte imprimé] (Antygona w Nowym Jorku), transl. Olivier Cohen, Urszula Mikos. Paris: Éd. théâtrales; [Montpellier]: Maison Antoine Vitez, impr. 2005.
Other translations - into Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Serbian, Russian, Slovak.
Głowacki Janusz
Born in 1938 in Poznan. Janusz Glowacki lives permanently in New York although in the 1990s he has been a frequent visitor to Warsaw. He drew attention to himself as an author with superb short stories in which he penetratingly described the cultural and social phenomena of the 1960s and 1970s. In an ironic-sneering form Glowacki laughs at the thoughtless chase for the material in life, cheap tinsel, lower middle class rubbish and snobbism which arose in the Warsaw of the time. From here we have the collections of short stories The Nonsense Spinner (1968) and The New La-ba-da Dance (1970) which made the young writer an unusually popular personage. Fame as a scoffer and lampooner was based on the systematic publication of Glowacki's articles - on the whole devoted to social phenomena. In the early 1970s, Janusz Glowacki took part in several much-talked about film undertakings as an actor and co-screenwriter. It is also from this period that Glowacki's first attempts at playwriting originate - after years of writing for the theatre they were to bring him international success. The first of his plays is Adultery Punished (Cudzolostwo ukarane) (pre-premier at the STS Theatre, Warsaw 1972). His subsequent plays are Shame (performed in 1976), The Sword (Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw 1977), and The Sloven (pre-premier at Teatr Wspolczesny in Szczecin 1979). These are works of drama in the realist vein, being examples of the superb fusion of the sense of observance with humour that moves in the direction of the grotesque. As many Polish artists, after the introduction of martial law in Poland, Janusz Glowacki decided to remain abroad. He settled in the United States where he developed his playwriting work. The work which drew the attention of American theatre circles was the play Hunting Cockroaches (staged 1986). However real success appeared with Antigone in New York (staged 1992), a play which enjoyed enormous success in the USA and Europe. The most outstanding of Glowacki's pieces for stage is the story of the lives of homeless emigrants leading a nomadic existence in one of New York's parks. The contemporary Antigone, the Puerto Rican Anita, repeats the gestures of her predecessors, yet the strength of this work is that the writer succeeds in creating an allegory of universal scope - readable and understandable everywhere it is performed. The world famous theatre expert, Jan Kott, wrote on Antigone in New York that it is one of the three most important Polish plays of recent decades, and that Glowacki deserves to be placed next to the greatest of modern dramatists - Slawomir Mrozek and Tadeusz Rozewicz.
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