Contrary to Poland where the Wojtyla’s screenplays are shown quite frequently there will be for the first time in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, 19th of December featured a play that wrote the Pope! The Prague Theatre in Dlouha has prepared his play The jeweler’s shop in a form of scenic reading under a direction of Petr Lanta. According to Lanta it is not going to be any king of ‘theatre in chairs’. ‘I would like to create with limited resources the most of the theater magic’ adds the director.
The jeweler’s shop is a poetic, poesy and monolog drama which main theme is the relationships and love. ‘They are actually loud and sincere personal thoughts and self-examination that becomes in certain parts a drama.’ describes the play Lanta.
The main characters are three couples that represent at the same time two different generations. Other symbolic persons take parts in the play such as Adam, who is a guide and protectors of erratic souls, perhaps something like Wojtyla’s alter ego and then a jeweler who is weighing not only the wedding rings but also the human hearts.
Wojtyla wrote this play under a pseudonym Andrzej Jawien in 1960, when he still served as a bishop in Krakow. The way how he is describing the relationships is very realistic, it is not only a symbolic drama. It is a text of responsibility and criticism of the sixties that he wrote in the epoch of free love and a common sensation that everything was allowed. He realized a danger leading from an unlimited liberty causing a confusion of a man’s soul. Today’s destruction of values is just confirming Wojtyla’s prediction of this era is a bad heritage.
The jeweler’s shop is a poetic, poesy and monolog drama which main theme is the relationships and love. ‘They are actually loud and sincere personal thoughts and self-examination that becomes in certain parts a drama.’ describes the play Lanta.
The main characters are three couples that represent at the same time two different generations. Other symbolic persons take parts in the play such as Adam, who is a guide and protectors of erratic souls, perhaps something like Wojtyla’s alter ego and then a jeweler who is weighing not only the wedding rings but also the human hearts.
Wojtyla wrote this play under a pseudonym Andrzej Jawien in 1960, when he still served as a bishop in Krakow. The way how he is describing the relationships is very realistic, it is not only a symbolic drama. It is a text of responsibility and criticism of the sixties that he wrote in the epoch of free love and a common sensation that everything was allowed. He realized a danger leading from an unlimited liberty causing a confusion of a man’s soul. Today’s destruction of values is just confirming Wojtyla’s prediction of this era is a bad heritage.
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