Andrzej Wajda - 'The Wedding' in theatre (196/222)

To listen to more of Andrzej Wajda’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Andrzej Wajda (Film director)   Polish film director Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016), whose début films portrayed the horror of the German occupation of Poland, won awards at Cannes which established his reputation as storyteller and commentator on Polish history. He also served on the national Senate from 1989-91. [Listener: Jacek Petrycki] TRANSCRIPT: In the meantime, Zygmunt Hubner gave me the opportunity to direct a play in the Stary Teatr because he had transferred from Teatr Wybrzeże to Stary Teatr where he was in charge and where he remembered me as his director and he wanted me to do 'The Wedding' for him. He chose it himself; there's a great tradition of performing 'The Wedding' in Kraków. The world premiere of this play was performed there in 1901. Here was where I encountered 'The Wedding' for the first time and all of the problems that I mentioned when I talked about the film. Namely, I tried to show 'The Wedding' as an event which isn't enveloped in dreary national reverence, but as an event that has something of a filmed news report for TV. I wasn't completely successful with this for various reasons but it was an important experience for me. I think that production of 'The Wedding' was well received.