Axer, Erwin

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Axer, Erwin (1917–83), Polish director, pupil and successor of Leon Schiller. In 1945 he established a company in Łódź, and four years later he founded the Contemporary Theatre in Warsaw. From 1955 to 1957 he also directed at the National Theatre, and he worked in many theatres outside Poland. He was responsible for the first production of many Polish plays, including Kruczkowski's The Germans (1949), Witkiewicz's The Mother (1970), and Mrożek's Tango (1965), The Happy Arrival (1973), and The Tailor (1979). He also added a number of foreign classics and new plays to his repertory, among them Brecht's Arturo Ui, which he also staged in Leningrad (1962); Chekhov's Three Sisters (1963); Pinter's Old Times and Ionesco's Macbett (both 1972); and Bond's Lear (1974). In 1980 he staged the world première of Frisch's Triptychon. The company from the Contemporary Theatre was seen in the World Theatre Season in 1964.

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