Fora ze dwora
A Shout from the Court

Summary/Abstract: Piotr Olkusz reviews a graduate play at the PWSFTviT Theater School directed by Anna Augustynowicz (Theater Studio of the Film School in Łódź, premiere: 7.11.2015). The author points out that the main theme of the performance is not the difference of the main protagonist, but the condition of the court, representing both the state and church powers. Though the author notes a connection between the figure and the reality on stage and the present socio-political situation in Poland, he concludes that Augustynowicz's play makes no radically anti-clerical statements. The undefined character of Iwona proves, in turn, that the state and the Church cannot gain full power over an individual's sense of freedom and conception of religiousness.

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