Aleksandra’s main area of interest is English Renaissance theatre especially modern and inter/multi-cultural performance and early modern literary theory.
She holds an MA from Warsaw University. Her PhD project entitled ‘Liquid’ Shakespeare: change and continuity in the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s plays in 21st century Poland addresses a fluid and changing approach to staging and interpretation that has always been characteristic of the adaptation of Shakespearean drama in Poland. This research project is located at the intersection of Shakespeare studies, performance studies, sociological and cultural studies, at the historical time best described by Anglo-Polish social thinker Zygmunt Bauman as ‘liquid modernity’. Aleksandra borrows this term to describe the place of Shakespeare in a country which, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, is still in flux, its society searching for new points of reference and values in the brave new world of democracy, capitalism and personal freedom. In October 2012 she curates an exhibition she invited to KCL, entitled THE THEATRE OF TWO TIMES. The aim of this exhibition is to chart the history of an Elizabethan-style Polish theatre from its beginnings in 17th century Gdansk to today.
