GRANICE PRZESTRZENI I GRANICE RZECZYWISTOŚCI W DRAMACIE EPICKIM JENSA BJØRNEBOE – NA PODSTAWIE TIL LYKKE MED DAGEN (1965)

The aim of this paper is to present the concept of Jens Bjørneboe’s version of epic drama. This phenomenon is explained with the help of a “border”‑criterium, showing how the Norwegian author established, defined and crossed borders on many different levels in his dramatic works and their adaptations on stage. Bjørneboe is presented as an author who not only consciously uses the border‑criterium to manipulate space and reality in his play Til lykke med dagen, but also expands or even crosses borders of theatrical theories and conventions, mainly Bertolt Brecht’s concepts. His “epic plays” are hybrid in their forms, joining different European traditions and expanding beyond what was common and accepted in the peripheral (both geographically and culturally) Norwegian theatre world of the 1960’s. Jens Bjørneboe is presented as an author of transgression, one of the first “to cast off the Ibsenite leg‑irons” .