Teatr alternatywny mistrzem drugiego planu, czyli jak polska scena niezależna funkcjonuje w cieniu organizacyjnym teatru instytucjonalnego

The article discusses and analyzes the model of operation and promotion of contemporary independent theatre companies (including their financing and organizational status), whose specifics places the alternative theatre in the background in relation to the institutional/dominant theatre. However, the main objective of the article is not to compare the repertory theatre with the off theatre, but to identify the obstacles and dangers to the alternative theatre today and the prospects for its development. The analysis is conducted in the spirit of cultural studies and aims to initiate a discussion of the financing and promotion of off theatres, an issue that is rarely the subject of detailed examinations or scientific studies. The result may be a marginalization and even disregard of the phenomenon in question, which plays an important role in Polish theatrical life.