report 2012/2013
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The festival’s curators arranged the
productions presented in Warsaw into
two segments: one settling accounts with
historical memory, the other concentrating
on the present time.
We brought ten productions to the Russian theatrical spring in
Warsaw, all of which – as Russia’s minister of culture emphasized –
were chosen by independent Polish theatre critics. The curators of
ДА!
ДА! ДА!
Contemporary Theatre, Drama, and Performance From Russia,
Agnieszka Lubomira Piotrowska and Roman Pawłowski, arranged
the project into two segments: one settling accounts with historical
memory, the other concentrating on the present time. Together they
build the image of a society coping with its totalitarian past while
undergoing rapid modernization. Watching the performances, it is
easy to notice that Polish and Russian people share a similar attitude
towards theatre as one of fewmedia of social debate, serious dialogue,
and identity of elites. As the curators of
ДА! ДА! ДА!
underline, “in both
countries, despite the commercialization and globalization of culture,
[theatre] has preserved its high social status and continues to be a
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A scene from
Gorki-10
