AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków

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AST National Academy of Theatre Arts
Akademia Sztuk Teatralnych
im. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Krakowie
Public
Established1946
RectorProf. Dorota Segda
Address
ul. Straszewskiego 21-22,
31 - 109
,
Kraków
,
Poland
Campus
  • Faculty of Acting (Kraków)
  • Faculty of Theatre Directing (Kraków)
  • Faculty of Acting and Puppetry (Wrocław)
  • Faculty of Dance Theatre (Bytom)
Websitehttp://www.ast.krakow.pl/

AST National Academy of Theatre Arts (

Słowacki Theatre, and Iwo Gall
's Dramatic Studio.

History

The history of the Ludwik Solski Academy began in 1946 with a three-year training course in drama for prospective actors. In 1949 the name of the school was changed to the State College of Acting (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Aktorska), and the curriculum extended to four years. Its current name, the Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna, was determined in 1955. From 1954 to 1964 the college also provided courses in puppetry and the puppet theatre, reactivated in 1972 as an independent Puppet Theatre Faculty located in the city of Wrocław.

The new Faculty of Directing was created in 1955 and continued in its original form till 1962. In 1973 the Faculty was re-established as the Faculty of Play Directing with several students pursuing a four-year programme. The next important stage in the development of the Academy was the establishment in 1979 of the Actors' Faculty in Wrocław.

In October 2017 the name of the school was changed to the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. The academy patron was also changed. Currently the patron is a

painter and poet Stanisław Wyspiański (Akademia Sztuk Teatralnych im. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Krakowie).[1]

From its beginnings the Academy for the Dramatic Arts was run by some of the most prominent Polish dramatic artists, Juliusz Osterwa, Tadeusz Burnatowicz, Władysław Woźnik, Eugeniusz Fulde, Bronisław Dąbrowski, Jerzy Krasowski, Danuta Michałowska,

Michal Zadara
.

Some of the Academy's more outstanding graduates in its first decade included

Witkacy Theatre in Zakopane
.

From its early years the Ludwik Solski Academy was a source of continuity for the Polish theatre thanks to the fact that its teaching staff often belonged to different generations including actors from before the

Socialist Realism in a schematic and vulgarized way. The repertoire of the Academy was narrowed down mostly to Russian and Soviet drama with no contemporary Western plays whatsoever. The repressive political climate lasted until after the Polish October
of 1956.

Close links to the leading theatres in Kraków contribute to the Academy's status. There is a direct correlation between the condition of the city's theatres and the condition of the Academy with staff composed of a fair number of Cracovian theatre personalities whose views on drama and the teaching methods cover a wide range of philosophies. In recent years, the school has opened a new department of theatre dramaturgy.

Organizational structure

Faculties

  • Faculty of Acting in Kraków
    • Department of Dramatic Acting
    • Department of Concert Singing and Acting
    • Department of Dance Theatre
  • Faculty of Theatre Directing in Kraków
    • Department of Theatre Directing
    • Department of Theatre Dramaturgy
    • Department of Puppet Theatre Directing
  • Faculty in Wrocław
    • Department of Acting
    • Department of Puppetry
    • Postgraduate study of Children's Theatre Directing

Enrollment

At present the Academy recruits new students for the Actors' Faculties in Kraków and Wrocław, the Faculty of Play Directing in Kraków, and the Puppet Theatre Faculty in Wrocław. Since 1946 well over a thousand students have graduated from the Ludwik Solski Academy, and found employment on theatre stages in Poland and abroad.

Notable alumni

Footnote

  1. ^ a b Senat PWST w Krakowie (18 September 2017). PWST w Krakowie (ed.). "Uchwała nr 24/2016-2020 Senatu PWST z dnia 18 września 2017 r. w sprawie: wprowadzenie zmian do Statutu PWST" (PDF). Senat PWST w Krakowie (in Polish). Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  2. ^ Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora, "The Ludwik Solski State Theatre School" at culture.pl [1]

References

See also

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