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Forefathers’ Eve – A Design for Repair

Summary/Abstract: Marcin Bogucki describes the Forefathers’ Eve: Recycling program – one stream of the Theater Olympics in Wrocław (27.10 – 4.11.2016). Bogucki’s point of departure is an opinion piece by Andrzej Stasiuk examining the present state of All Souls’ Day. The author claims that Forefathers’ Eve: Recycling was an attempt to investigate the Polish cult of the dead, stating that “contemporary Poland seems to be the country of Stasiuk’s Forefathers’ Eve, where cemeteries and bodies are profaned.” Bogucki compares two performances: Swinarski’s Forefathers’ Eve remixed by Jerzy Trela and Forefathers’ Eve: Twelve Improvisations byJerzy Grzegorzecki, seen by Weronika Szczawińska and Agnieszka Jakimiak.

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