Bojownik czy błazen? Ibsenowski "Wróg ludu" w teatrze polskim

The article presents traditional and modern approaches to Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People in the Polish theatre. Banned in Poland for almost a decade (the country was a part of three different states until 1918), first staged in 1891, continuously censored, the play became a part of the national debate on freedom and rebellion, for a long time staged as a manifesto, even though Ibsen’s popularity lessened. The political approach was re-invented in the communist 1970s and 1980. After a thirty years’ gap, Ibsen’s masterpiece premiered recently in Cracow, directed by a famous and controversial artist of the younger generation.