Storing memory

Bibliogr.

Katarzyna Waligóra focuses on theater props that hold the memory of a performance. The author describes the process of storing objects and their circulation between plays at the Stary Theater in Krakow. She points out the dual way in which things are apprehended in the theater. This includes the disposal of material - the destruction of costumes and set designs after a performance is closed, or the creation of props that are not ultimately used. She also notes, however, that props acknowledged as valuable are kept in theater storerooms for many years, to be reused. In the production of Wiktor Rubin and Jolanta Janiczak's The Tovianists, Kings of the Clouds, for example, Waligóra considers the theatrical aspect of recycling, the intertextual dimension of set design, the object as a way of storing memory.