Dramaty Zebrane. Collected Plays, Tom 1. Teatr Jednego Aktora. Volume 1. Plays for One Actor by Kazimierz Braun (published in April 2024)

Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-945938-62-7 ($56.). Paperback: ISBN 978-1-945938-63-4 ($40), ISBN  978-1-945938-64-1 (eBook, PDF format).
            Moonrise Press is pleased to present the first of four volumes of Collected Plays by Kazimierz Braun, containing his plays for one actress and one actor, in a bilingual, Polish and English edition and a large format (8.5 by 11, 364 pages), hardcover and paperback.             Collected Plays, Volume 1, Plays for One Actor, is the first volume of dramas by Kazimierz Braun in a bilingual, Polish-English edition. It contains two  dramas for an actress and five for an actor. "Emigrant Queen" tells the story of the fate and journey of the great actress Helena Modrzejewska (Modjeska), a star of Polish and American stages in the second half of the 19th century. "Hollywood Means Sacred Forest" depicts the attempts of a Polish actress to make a career in America in the 1980’s. The texts about Tadeusz Kościuszko, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and Saint Maximilian Kolbe are biographical dramas about these great  Poles who—each in their own field—had a huge impact on the course of Polish history, its literature and culture, as well as Polish spirituality; they also made their mark on history in its broadest sense.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS IN POLISH AND ENGLISH
SPIS TREŚCI

• Moje przygody w teatrze jednego aktora——3
•                      Sztuki dla aktorki  ——————————— 15                    
• Królowa Emigrantka  —————————  17
• Hollywood znaczy święty las ——————  57
• Sztuki dla aktora ———————————   75
• Kościuszko. Naczelnik  ————————   77
• Powrót Norwida ———————————   97
• Sienkiewicz. Ku niepodległości ————— 115
• Mistrz Paderewski   —————————  135
• Cela Ojca Maksymiliana  ———————  151
• Nota o autorze ———————————— 357
• CONTENTS
• My Adventures With Plays For One Actor — 177
• Plays For An Actress —————————  187
• Emigrant Queen  ———————————  189
•  Hollywood Means The Sacred Forest  ——  237
• Plays For An Actor————————_——   255
• Kościuszko. The Commander—————— 257
• Norwid Returns———————————— 277
• Sienkiewicz. Towards Independence ——— 295 
• Maestro Paderewski  ———————_ ——315
• Father Maximilian’s Cell  ———————— 333
• Note About The Author ————————— 357

Julian Stanczak, "Dual Glare" 1970

About the Author

Kazimierz Braun is director, writer, and scholar. He studied Polish literature and directing. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Poznań and his habilitation at the University of Wrocław; he also obtained a habilitation in directing at the Drama School in Warsaw. He holds the title of full professor both in Poland and the United States. He directed over 150 theater productions in Poland, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Germany and other countries. He was the Artistic Director and General Director of the Theater J. Osterwa in Lublin (1967-1974) and the Contemporary Theater in Wrocław (1975-1984). He taught at universities in Poland and the United States, including the University of Wrocław, the Drama School Kraków-Wrocław, University of California, City University of New York, New York University, University at Buffalo. He is the author of over 70 books on the history and practice of theater,  as well as novels, poetry and dramas, published in several languages. His dramas were produced in Poland, the USA, Canada, and Ireland. He is also the author of translations from English, French and Italian into Polish and from Polish and French into English. He has received a number of artistic, literary, and scholarly awards, including awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Turzański Foundation, the Japanese Foundation and the London Prize for Literature.