Zdradzeni?
Betrayed?

Summary/Abstract: Beata Guczalska comments on a book published by Krytyka Polityczna and the Theater Institute in Warsaw: Piknik Golgota Polska. Sztuka – religia – demokracja (Golgotha Picnic Poland: Art – Religion – Democracy, eds. Agata Adamiecka-Sitek, Iwona Kurz, Warsaw 2015). The author recalls the events that led to the cancellation of the play Golgotha Picnic byRodrigo García at the Malta Festival in 2014, under pressure from the protests of right-wing communities. She describes the documentary part of the book and juxtaposes it with the present political situation in Poland and abroad. She also presents the sides of the conflict, indicating the impossibility of an understanding being reached. The events surrounding Golgotha Picnic are placed in the context of the dynamics and course of political and cultural changes before and after 1989. In conclusion, the author notes that the new government's policies aiming to ideologize culture and art will perhaps demand the same sort of solidarity of the arts communities that was seen in the 1980s.

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