Discussion panels
Masters – panel discussion
23 March
What does it mean to be a master? How do we treat those we call that name? Does the status of the master put the person in a different position? Does it give him greater creative freedom, guarantee a sense of security and comfort to create?
Moderator:
Jacek Żakowski – valued journalist and feature writer, director of the Journalism Programme at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, author and host of many radio and television programmes in TOK FM radio and television channel TVP INFO, a columnist in „Polityka” magazine.
Taking part in discussion:
Anna R. Burzyńska – academic teacher at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, theatre critic, reviewer, specialist in Polish and German drama.
Krystian Lupa – theatre director, stage designer, graphic artist, playwright, translator and academic teacher at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Cracow. Regarded as one of the most outstanding Polish theatre directors.
Paweł Sztarbowski – theatre critic, reviewer, columnist, playwright. He worked in the Theatre Institute in Warsaw. A depute director of Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz.
Grzegorz Niziołek – a professor at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Cracow. He takes up the issues of Polish theatre of the XX and XXI century, art of direction, the latest artistic phenomena in Polish and European theatre, relations between theatre and history.
Warriors and witnesses – panel discussion
28 march
What is the place of an artist in a country seized by the revolution? What are his duties towards the country and the nation? Should the artist fight on the street? Or should he fight to commemorate the events and to relate the truth about them to the world through his art? The participants of the discussion will also try to consider the place of culture after the revolution. Does the country need culture while healing its wounds and trying to economically stand on its feet? Will there be funds to finance the art?
Agnieszka Lubomira Piotrowska will be the moderator of the discussion. She is a specialist in Russian theatre and culture. She introduced latest Russian dramas to Polish stages. She translated over twenty plays that had previews in Poland. She also translated many Polish dramas to Russian.
Taking part in the discussion:
Vladislav Troitskij – director, founder and manager of DAKH Theatre.
Natalia Vorozhbit – playwright.
Both of them live and work in Kiev. They try to revive the theatrical space, working not only for their career but also educating new directors, actors and playwrights.
They both were witnesses and participants of the events at Maidan. Natalia was gathering a documentary material for a play, Vlad was preparing a play about the events that happened there.
