W Bramie
In the Gate

Summary/Abstract: A subjective panorama of the work performed by Tomasz Pietrasiewicz and the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre directed by him. The author emphasized the fact that this activity was embedded in the freedom of speech (and recalled that Pietrasiewicz co-created the underground publishing movement of the 1980s, a fact that years later resulted in the establishment of Dom Słów [The House of Words]); attention is also drawn to the “theatrical” component of the ventures pursued by Pietrasiewicz (including those that have become part of the town’s very tissue, such as Latarnia Pamięci [Memory Lantern]); finally, P. Mitzner accentuated the importance of assorted “documentation” initiatives and their underlying respect for the past, especially the one threatened with oblivion. The poetic applied in the sketch (“memory flashes”) stresses the fact that the most significant domain of Pietrasiewicz’s activity is delineated by criss-crossing vectors of memory and oblivion, with creative imagination, which learns a lot from poetry, being the tool of his work.

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