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The Theater's a Professional Liar. Radek Rychcik in conversation with Tomasz Kireńczuk

Summary/Abstract: A conversation devoted to Forefathers' Eve at the Nowy Theater in Poznań (premiere: 22.03.2014). The director explains why he renders the experience of commonality in Mickiewicz's drama from the perspective of the Afro-American struggle for freedom. The conversation also addresses how images from the past are evoked through the media. Rychcik is interested in the media transfer of emotions, and he treats media transmissions as places "inhabited by things from the past." The director also speaks of a need for a "return to theatricality," seen as play: "Perhaps, at present, we should allow ourselves the pure pleasure of being in the theater. The theater is, after all, a place where you become a professional liar, and so it has to keep pretending as though it is the most important thing in the world."

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