Tekst dramaturgiczny w polskim teatrze lalek

The article focuses on the nature of the theatrical text and dramaturgy in puppet theatre in Poland and concentrates on stage work directed at an adult spectator. It shows the phenomenon’s historical context in relation to the works of Zofia and Władysław Jarema in Cracow’s Teatr Groteska, Janusz Ryl-Krystianowski’s work in Animation Theater in Poznań and Wiesław’s Hejno’s work in Puppet Theater in Wrocław. The attempt to characterize the presence of the theatrical text in the contemporary puppet theater is based on the example of Malabar Hotel Theater which derives from form theater, and an interview conducted with a playwright Marcin Bartnikowski. The staging strategies are shown, among others, on the example of the staging of Michail Bulhakov’s Master and Margarita and an authorial play Bacon. The article attempts to delineate and collect motives or literary signs most enthusiastically “rewritten” by form theater and puppet theatre in Poland