Okupacja czy kolaboracja?
Occupation or Collaboration?

Summary/Abstract: In an essay inspired by Dorota Sajewska’s latest book, Occupied by the Media, Beata Guczalska shares reflections on the subject of the social significance of theater. Guczalska believes that the most important issues that emerge from the book concern how theater is capable of heralding social transformation. The author believes that the theater artist, who long ago lost his/her status of the prophet leading the masses, is always to a greater or lesser degree interwoven in the mechanisms of various systems and ideologies. This is why, Guczalska believes, we ought now to inquire if instead of producing plays we ought to be debating the idea of theater – its collapse and lifelessness on the one hand, and the capacity to function in a different, radically changed form on the other.

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