Talent w teatrze zazdrości

This article concerns three selected works of the 20th Century drama: Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus (which had its first-night performance in the Oliver Theatre in London on 11.02.1979), The Impostor Gyorgy Spiró (staged before the Budapest audience in the theatre Katona József Szinhaz on 28.10.1983), and the drama The Four Hand Dinner of Paul Barz (included in the repertoire of European theaters after its first-night performance at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin on 27.01.1987). These dramas present the very thorough, and at the same time subtle analysis of the relationships between artists talented in varying degrees: their mutual curiosity, excessive admiration, cautious distance, small mutual malice or resulting from complexes passionate jealousy. It is interesting that the three so different playwrights used in these dramas the same structural scheme: reaching into the history of theater or music, on the canvas of real artistic biography they created their own tale about desire of unattainable fame, about creative solitude and social exclusion of talented misfits.