Cracow. Several hundred people in protest in defense of the director of the Słowacki. “The theater is ours!” [ZDJÊCIA]

A few days ago, there was information in the media that the voivode of Małopolska wanted to dismiss Krzysztof Głuchowski from the position of director of the Słowacki Theater in Krakow. – the appeal procedure started. On Saturday, the audience organized a protest in front of the theater. But the disagreement with the voivode’s decision is heard from all over Poland.

Cracow. Protests after the decision to dismiss the director of the Słowacki Theater. “Theater is ours”

first of all, “violation of the provisions relating to the application of the Public Procurement Law”. that the removal of the current theater director would be related to the staging of Dziady, a performance that outraged the politicians of Law and Justice.

On Saturday, February 19, about 200 people chanted in front of the Słowacki Theater in Krakow, incl. “The theater is ours” or “Wall behind the director”. According to “”, the Civic Initiative “Iskra”, organizing the demonstration, invited actors associated with the institution – they read letters of support from theaters all over Poland, as well as from public figures.

– 54 years ago, at the same time, with the case of Mickiewicz’s Dziady, the gloomy period of the so-called March events. The perpetrators, people of the Polish People’s Republic power, ended up in disgrace. But how much human harm and suffering as well as damage inflicted on Polish culture, and therefore on society? Since I urge people not to be indifferent to evil – or I can be indifferent to the evil that is brewing – I have no doubt that because of “Dziady” – the management and the team of the Theater in Krakow. J. Słowacki? This evil is aimed at society – because the Słowacki Theater is ours! – read the words of Marian Turski, Dominik Bednarczyk, one of the actresses who appeared in the new adaptation of “Dziady”.

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In 1968, Dziady, directed by Dejmek, was taken off the poster. These events initiated a wave of rebellion

In 1968, the communist authorities canceled the play “Dziadów” staged at the National Theater. A month after the premiere, Kazimierz Dejmek, who directed the show, was urgently summoned to the Central Committee. There he heard that his staging was “anti-Soviet” and “anti-Russian”, and then he was removed from the Polish United Workers’ Party and dismissed from the position of National Director.

When Dziady disappeared from the poster, protests began, which sparked numerous confrontations with the communist authorities in 1968. On March 8, a protest rally took place in the courtyard of the University of Warsaw, during which students opposed censorship and the expulsion of Adam Michnik and Henryk Szlajfer from the university. The rally was brutally pacified by the ZOMO, ORMo and the so-called workers’ activist and became the beginning of the March events.

The grandson of Kazimierz Dejmek sent a letter to Krzysztof Głuchowski. “Today – nearly 33 years after regaining independence – the government, whose leaders proudly recall their fight for freedom of speech, are questioning Dziady again (nomen omen), and admitting that they have not even seen the performance. this indicates that the director will meet a similar ‘punishment’ that befell my grandfather “- wrote Paweł Dejmek.