„Skąd przyszło, tego nie wiem, i jakie imię nosi”. Tajemnicze dziecko Michaela Endego zagadkową dziewczynką na polskich scenach teatralnych

Abstract

Theater and the stage are places that bring literature to young audiences in a special way. Although Michael Ende and his works for children are not as well known to children in Poland as to their German-speaking peers, his works have been and are exhibited on Polish theater stages. The article aims to present the staging of the novel Momo by Polish theaters. From the first development of the novel by the Polish Radio Theater through subsequent staging attempts in the next 30 years, the content of the article focuses mainly on the reception of the performances by press reviewers. Most of the reviews were taken from the e-teatr.pl website, which specializes in presenting and discussing the activities of Polish theaters and the productions prepared in them in recent decades. Momo’s directors struggled to present the play to young and small audiences. The article describes the ways of presenting the novel on stage, the set design, interesting forms of stage presentations, and the art of acting in selected stagings of Michael Ende’s Momo on Polish stages.