Intymne obcowanie z nieobecnymi
Intimate Contacts with the Absent

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre and its founder and head: Tomasz Pietrasiewicz, portrayed against the wide historical-cultural background of Lublin, a town whose postwar identity up to the 1980s remained ideological and connected with the Polish Committee of National Liberation – the foundation myth of People’s Poland. This image gradually changed in favor of totally different narrations devised by cultural-academic elites and contesters originating from the alterative theatre. The creation of those transformations emphasized the town’s multi-cultural (i.a. Jewish) heritage, its current status of a “borderland”, the participation of Lublin in formulating free speech practices (i.a. an independent publishing movement), as well as the town’s myth-creating potential. The author indicated that the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre directed by Pietrasiewicz plays a pioneering and creative part in such metamorphoses as well as their documentation and interpretation.

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