Teatr po 10 kwietnia: z Leszkiem Kolankiewiczem i Dorotą Sajewską rozmawia Marta Michalak
Theatre Post-April 10: Leszek Kolankiewicz and Dorota Sajewska talk with Marta Michalak

Summary/Abstract: Discussion about The Polish Club, directed by Paweł Miśkiewicz. Its participants analyse the play’s beginning, when the audience is asked to rise for the national anthem, which, according to Sajewska (the play’s scriptwriter), is an emblem of the sadomasochistic stance prevailing in theatre, while for Kolankiewicz, it represents Artaud’s “Theatre of Cruelty”. By analysing other elements of the production, they show how the play, by raising the issues of patriotism, symbolic language and the participation of the Church in community life, corresponds both with such events as the death of John Paul II or the Smolensk catastrophe, and with the artistic tradition – in particular the output of Wyspiański and Grzegorzewski.

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