Wyjścia nie ma… Rzecz o teatrze pamięci Teatru NN
There Is No Way Out... On the Memory Theatre at the NN Theatre

Summary/Abstract: This article is an in-depth presentation of the undertakings of Tomasz Pietrasiewicz and the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre involving “work with memory”. An extensive panorama of the assorted ventures pursued by the Centre (spanning from artistic to social) is depicted against a wide and well-identified background of questions associated with animating and sustaining memory. The author presented the crucial versions of the “memory theatre at the NN Theatre” (such as the The Mystery of Memory, Listy do Henia [Letters to Henio], or the Memory Trail: Lublin. Pamięć Zagłady [Lublin. Memory of the Holocaust]), arranged in chronological order and subsequently analysed and subjected to reinterpretation. In doing so she also treated their premises, inner structure, and impact as a problem, at the same time demonstrating that they can be perceived as a cohesive artistic undertaking (with a theatrical provenance) developing in time and comprising a form of, primo, assuming responsibility for “abandoned memory” and, secondo, its re-introduction into the actual and imaginary-symbolic space of Lublin.

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