Curated Panel/Panel Organisé: Carlos Morton’s Trapped in Amber: Bringing the Exteriority to Bear on the Interior or Making the Invisible Visible

Location: Zoom Room A / Salle Zoom A

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1

TRAPPED IN AMBER:  The story of how a Mexican-American and Jewish-American Director got involved in writing a play about the history of Gdansk, Poland and how the play was first produced and given a staged reading in English, and subsequent full production in Polish at the University of Gdansk. The play has since been published (2024) in English and Polish.

• Carlos Morton, “The Writing of a Polish Play”
• Grzegorz Welizarowicz, “Trapped in Amber in Praxis and Theory”
• Malgorzata Ziolek-Sowinska, “Reception and Reaction”

Biographies

Carlos Morton

CARLOS MORTON has over one hundred theatrical productions, both  in the U.S. and abroad.  He is the author of The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales and Other Plays (1983), Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays (1992). He is currently Professor Emeritus of Theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara.