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Knowest Thee This Land

Summary/Abstract: A text devoted to two premieres at the Polski Theater in Bydgoszcz, presented under the tag line “Indignados”: The Country’s in a Bad Way by Weronika Szczawińska (scriptwriter and director) and Mateusz Pakuła (text),and Popiełuszko by Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, directed by Paweł Łysak. In their play inspired by the trial of Tony Judt, Szczawińska and Pakuła speak of the generation born in the early 1980s, inquiring into the reality that surrounds them. The performance is hurt, however, by its short-cuts, roughness, and superficiality. Popiełuszko, in turn, pertains to the lost past and the community that once existed. The message of the play, both comedic and peppered with serious topics, is blurred by a stumbling execution.

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