Rocznik Komparatystyczny

This paper concerns translatory, theatrical etc. transfer in different theatre landscapes (especially the United States of America, the German-speaking countries, Russia and France), from the beginning of the 1980s to the first decade of the 21st century. The playwright is Janusz Głowacki (1938), one of the internationally most frequently staged Polish playwrights of the last decades. Of specific interest is the American theatre landscape – “between art and trade“ – in which Głowacki “reinvented“ and “promoted“ himself as a playwright: changing the textual make-up of his plays in reference to his translators, theatrical experience (specific stagings), new political circumstances etc. Consequently, there is no canonic, binding textual basis for translators. The production of drama and drama translation proceeds in a way that the traditional difference between source and target text is abolished. This case of “circular transfer” takes place in Głowacki’s first longer play, Kopciuch (Cinders) and his internationally most frequently staged play, Antygona w Nowym Jorku (Antigone in New York)