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'Close but Far, Human but Square, Normal but Exhausting': Pandemic Theatre in Poland.
- Source :
- Theatre Research International; Mar2023, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p82-99, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The purpose of this article is to explore different ways of countering the COVID-19 pandemic in Polish theatre that were not only attempts to provide protection against the potentially lethal coronavirus, but also attempts to actively combat other 'viruses': the capitalist compulsion for productivity and the exclusion of Others (the disabled, the elderly, women or LGBT+ people). Several Polish artists of the lockdown era (participants in the Quarantine Project , Beyond #quarantine and DIY 2020 Masterclasses , members of Theatre 21, Joanna Szczepkowska and Wojtek Ziemilski) have managed to draw the attention of a wider audience to these problems. During the pandemic, they practised the art of resistance in various ways, including the 'art of failure' as a resistance against neo-liberal systems. Therefore their projects can be seen as a dress rehearsal before the emergence of a post-pandemic, post-capitalist, post-growth, more ethically conscious theatre of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PANDEMICS
COVID-19 pandemic
CORONAVIRUSES
COVID-19
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03078833
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Theatre Research International
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161813078
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883322000426