2021/06/29 by Piotr Morawski, Morawski, Piotr
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Polish Historical and Cultural Studies #Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies #Urban Development and Cultural Heritage
paper · doi:10.34762/a537-rd51
openalex publication_date 2021/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
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. Keywords: Teatr Ziemi Mazowieckiej; Polish theatre history; audience; relationships; theatre criticism