Lublin. Teatr NN. Ośrodek „Brama Grodzka”
Lublin. The “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre

Summary/Abstract: This sketch discusses the most prominent and chronologically arranged stages in the activity of Tomasz Pietrasiewicz – both theatrical and the one conducted within the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre. An outlined history of those undertakings makes it possible to demonstrate the way in which successive versions of the Theatre – an outcome of the contesting tradition of “alternative art” – became, due to inner transformations, an institution whose dimension – not merely artistic but also social – created space in which “the call for memory” and tackling memory become an act of an “affirmation” of that, which demands to be salvaged in human reality despite the fact that it is unwanted and rejected. In this fashion, and without losing its edge, “contestation” turns against oblivion and contempt.

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