“Monika Strzępka won the competition for the director of Dramatyczny Theater and she will take up the position on September 1, 2022. Congratulations !!! – Artur Jóźwik from the Warsaw City Hall informed on Facebook.
Strzępka competed with Michał Zadara and the current director of the theater, Tadeusz Słobodzianek.
Monika Strzępka becomes the new director of the Dramatic Theater. “Artistic freedom is in decline”
In October, Monika Strzępka wrote a letter to Rafał Trzaskowski. “For several years I have had a deeper and deeper feeling that I am a stranger in my own country. Poland is not for me. For me as a woman, for me as a mother, for me as an artist. they should not, because they constitute our basic freedoms. We live in a place where men (including in great numbers male, clergy and Catholic), quite seriously on the air of not only national television stations, debate among themselves to what extent a woman can decide about her own body “- she wrote.
As she added, “artistic freedom is in decline.” “The authorities consistently staff key cultural institutions with people who guarantee that there will be no crossover between nationalist propaganda and the cultural offer of state-owned institutions, which are the most subsidized,” she said.
The so-called table scandal
At the end of the year, there was a lot of publicity in social media about the Słobodzianka entry, who on Facebook addressed the head of Cafe Kulturalna (the premises located next to the theater; the owner of the premises from the Dramatyczny Theater), Agnieszka Łabuszewska – the dispute concerned, among others, seats at the table. The head of Kulturalna wrote back to Słobodzianek: “In an interview with an employee of Kulturalna, you expressed your great indignation that the table was moved (which is true – it was moved by about 2 m) and you are forced to sit somewhere else than for the last 9 years. (…) You also conveyed to my employee that you hope that the indignation you expressed will not prevent you from now on – I quote: “We will not spit in your soup.” Mr. Director, I do not know such practices. my restaurant’s food is prepared by a professional team of chefs who cook with care and respect for each dish and each guest. ”
Słobodzianek’s statements were criticized by many public figures, incl. writer Jacek Dehnel. “I haven’t seen such a festival of moustachioed pomposity, trash, misogynistic contempt and rudeness performed by the head of a cultural institution for a long time, and yet» a good change «has accustomed us to the most peculiar behaviors” – he assessed, quoted by.
Source: Gazeta
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