Julian Lewański o staropolszczyźnie Leona Schillera i Kazimierza Dejmka

Using Julian Lewański’s essay “Leona Schillera prace nad teatrem staropolskim” (Pamiętnik Teatralny 1955 No. 3–4) as a starting point the author undertakes to analyse the way the most outstanding researcher of old Polish drama perceived the work of this drama’s most outstanding directors. While evaluating Leon Schiller’s achievements in this respect Lewański had been working on his anthology of old Polish dramas, which would then becomecanonical. Thus, it is not surprising that the scholar paid attention to various historical inaccuracies found in Schiller’s productions. On the other hand, however, he did notice and appreciate the director’s efforts to “form a Polish theatrical style. ”Lewański looked at Kazimierz Dejmek’s old Polish productions from a different point of view as he participated in their inception as a consultant or scenario co-author. Without doubt, the collaboration was fruitful and beneficial for both parties. It made the productions richer, but it also broadened the researcher’s horizons. At the end the author recalls a conversation she had with Lewański in 1998.The scholar, over eighty years old at the time, talked with approval and enthusiasm about the novel production of “Historyja o chwalebnym Zmartwychwstaniu Pańskim” that was being prepared by Piotr Cieplak.