Dears, I would like to inform you shortly about the fights that the Polish theatre - and me myself - is involve in right now. I think it has a lot to do with a subject of taboo. Till Tuesday I was working as a dramaturg in National Stary Theatre in Krakow - at the production of "Un-dvine Comedy. Remains" directed by acknowledged Croatian director Oliver Frljić. The performance was supposed to have a premiere on 7 and 8 of December. In the meantime the production and theatre itself were aggressively accused by the right wing media of any sorts of sins: from lack of the respect for the tradition to destroying the national values. There were attempts to interupt the other performances in the theatre and all sorts of treads towards us and the actors of our production were happening. We were accused of being Jews, traitors of the homeland and so on. The paradox is: instead of defending the production and artistic freedom of the theatre, the management/directors suspended (what in fact means canceled) the production. There is a huge discussion in Poland right now, most of it pretty aggressive and scary. Thanks to the decision of the National Stary Theatre management, the "real patriots" won a lot of power. Attached you will find the open letter written by us - the creative team of the production - so you can get at least some insight into the situation. My best regards Joanna |
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