https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=808 Index de Konrad Swinarski fr 0 https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=805 Reconstructing the production process of a performance is always a tricky task. However, a record of a performance which was actually never performed forces a theatre researcher to face the myth that has been generated in the course of time. The aim of this article is to account for the circumstances of two Shakespeare projects : Hamlet directed by Konrad Swinarski (1975) and King Lear directed by Evgeni Korin (1992). The production of Hamlet in the Stary Theatre in Krakow was severed by the tragic death of the director Konrad Swinarski in an airplane crash. King Lear directed by Evgeni Korin never came to be due to the death of the Lear‑actor, Tadeusz Łomnicki, a week before the premiere. Because of the fleeting nature of human memory and the multiplicity of perceptions, aesthetic goals and implicit messages of both performances have indeed grown into independent myths. This article constitutes a comparative analysis of available material from the aforementioned productions and is an attempt at capturing the roots of the « mythologization » of these performances. mer., 22 avril 2015 16:12:10 +0200 sam., 28 déc. 2019 14:46:37 +0100 https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=805