MY ANSWER TO “WHAT IS ART? HORIZONS OF THE CREATOR AND RECIPIENT”
MY ANSWER TO “WHAT IS ART? HORIZONS OF THE CREATOR AND RECIPIENT”

Summary/Abstract: I am a life-long theatre enthusiast, both an avid spectator and an academic specialist in the field, who, until recently, has never imagined my life without the experience of live theatre performance. This strikes me as odd now. I grew up in the Polish People’s Republic where exposure to Western culture from behind the Iron Curtain was limited, belated, and absurdly censored, and I quickly became aware of the historical precarity of our access to culture, as well as mindful of my own good fortune in not being born earlier or in another corner of the communist laboratory. Yet it was not the experience of communist repressions but that of a global pandemic that finally forced me to contemplate a life deprived of live theatre.

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