Jerzy Kryszak is an actor, but he has also been performing on the cabaret stage for years. Recently, he commented harshly on the decision to exclude cabarets from the Sopot festival. This is not the first time that cabaret artists have entered into public conflict with the television authorities. A few months ago, the station stopped showing sketches a week before the parliamentary elections. Then the program “Cabaret live. Młodzi i moralni” had to say goodbye to its airtime.
What happened to “Cabaret Live”? Television gagged the mouths of cabaret performers
The SuperHit Festival event in Sopot lasted three days. The last day of the festival was devoted to “Cabaret Night”, and the most popular comedians in Poland appeared on stage. This year, the event will last only two days and there will be no cabarets. Why this decision? The conflict resulted from the scandal related to “Cabaret Live”. When the television authorities gagged the satirists before the elections, they turned their backs on the station.
We believe that our further cooperation with Polsat under the current conditions is not possible
– we read in the book published by comedians from the “Cabaret Live” program.
What cabarets are there in Sopot? This year the event will last only two days. There will be no cabaret artists
The conflict continues, and the television authorities have decided that cabarets will be cut from the program of the Sopot event. He commented on the matter and believed that not inviting cabaret artists to the festival would not help anyone and only the viewers would lose. — Apparently the president, the management board and the artistic director are not laughing. (…) Without laughter, without smiling, we will become as bitter as bile. Laughter is like a fresh shower, it is medicine for the soul. (…) Visions change depending on the distance from power. Winds change direction, rivers meander. The world is dying, he said in an interview with .
Source: Gazeta
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