Protest w sejmie a protest w teatrze
The Protest in the Parliament and in the Theatre

Theatre 21 and Its “Revolution That Never Was”

Author(s): Anna Piniewska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Theatre 21; disability; protest; stereotype; activism, social model of disability
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze Theatre 21’s "Revolution That Never Was" directed by Justyna Sobczyk. The author demonstrates how – in a non-obvious way – the performance raises the subject of the protest of people with disabilities and their caretakers, which took place in 2018 and lasted for forty days. She also explains how the actors and actresses challenge the social stereotypes of disabled people. The key contexts for this article are disability rights activism discussed by Tom Shakespeare and the problem of regaining presence in the public sphere (both political and artistic). The latter is related to the title of the essential publication concerning disability in theatre and performance, edited by Ewelina Godlewska-Byliniak and Justyna Lipko-Konieczna.

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