Budowanie relacji. Teatr Ziemi Mazowieckiej i jego publiczności
Creating relationships. Teatr Ziemi Mazowieckiej and its publics

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to examine the archive of letters written to the Teatr Ziemi Mazowieckiej and to reconstruct the theatre’s practices aimed at giving voice to its audience. The preserved letters allow us to ask questions about the ways of building relations with the audience by the theatre, which inspired their creation and also used them in its programmes. The content of the letters and the strategies used by their authors allow us to pose a hypothesis that the theatre’s management constructed a discourse different from that of the reviewers, who disdained the work of the theatre. The archive also allows us to postulate a counter-criticism which, unlike the hierarchically establishing criticism, uses the rhetoric of enthusiasm and care, locating a political potential in kindness and seeing in it an ability to make things happen.

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