Typescript memoirs of M. Rokoszowa, cultural activist. 1970.

[ROKOSZOWA Maria]. A typescript memoir by Maria Rokoszowa entitled. "On the cart and under the cart of Thespis. (Memories of a cultural and educational activist in 25 years of the People's Republic of Poland)" and other materials (texts of performances, letters, press clippings) concerning her and actress Ewa Sztolcman-Kotlarczyk.
The memoirs were typewritten on 166 sheets of form. A4. The text was sent to a competition organized in 1970 by, among others, Radio and Television, and bears the emblem "Ms. Maria". The attached copy of the Competition Jury's protocol shows that Maria Rokoszowa's memoirs won first place. Heavily redacted pieces were published in the collection "Past time not wasted 1945-1970. Memories of cultural activists" (Kr. 1973, pp. 173-194) - a piece of it is attached. The author of the memoirs was introduced in that book as follows: "Maria Rokoszowa [...] experienced an 'infatuation' with theater while still a child ].... She continued this family tradition at school age, and then as a teacher, even before the war, she organized school performances and learned to combine art with educational functions [...]. Her further fate as a co-organizer of the Powszechny Theater in Cracow after the war, and then as a long-time 'field activist,' associated mainly with the popularization of theatrical culture and the living word, is a particularly vivid documentation of combining amateur creative passion with painstaking organizing and educational activities" (p. 16).
Typescript includes chapters: On Cooperative Theater and Blink (p. 1), Crash (40), Interrupted Life (p. 46), Borejszowskie: Drive and Teach! (p. 51), Culture for the sake of a community center (p. 66), Ambassadors of poets (p. 86), Back to the union (p. 99), In the fabric of Cepelia (1961-65) (p. 117), Oj, górol ci ja, górol (p. 132), Encounters with the great and noble (p. 141), Tactile dynamics and the departing distance (1962-1965) (p. 156), Breakthrough 1965 (p. 159).
Noteworthy, among others, is the mention of Zbyszek Cybulski, who began his acting career with Rokoszowa's troupe. The author describes one of his performances as follows: "I also remember how once, performing in the midst of a large audience in some peasant hut, he so delighted a village lackey that he knelt down in front of him, folding his hands as if to pray. Probably it mistook, captivated, the chamber for a church, Zbyszek for a preacher or a saint. This image has remained in my memory so far" (p. 154). He further writes: "To tell the truth, it was I who persuaded him to study [acting], because I saw in him an original talent for acting. At the same time, I do not hide the fact that I suffered at the thought of the possibility of Zbyszek saying goodbye to the Ensemble".