Kashubian Dramaturgy for Young Audiences. Review of Authors and Conventions

Abstract

The article concerns the development of Kashubian-language drama aimed at children and youth audiences. The considerations discuss several playwrights who have written plays from the 1980s to the present. The article focuses on works written in the last twenty years of the 21st century (S. Fikus, A. Pepliński, E. Pryczkowska, T. Wejer, D. Formela, F. Baska-Borzyszkowska). Their common feature is strong didacticism and a constant moralizing, which makes them works of average, not outstanding, artistic value. The reason for this situation is that the Kashubian language has only had the status of an ethnic minority language since 2005 and has only since then been able to develop freely in the public space.