Comments on: Political Repression in Poland: Ewa Wójciak and the Eighth Day Theater

By: Remigiusz Mokwa

Remigiusz Mokwa — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:25:00 +0000

I would like to point out at one important thing: anybody could access any profile on facebook and its rather tricky to agree with suggestion that E. Wójciak privacy was invaded.
It was not Polish Government or our establishment, who criticized her aggressive language, but ordinary people of Poland. Ewa Wójciak’s wages are funded by the taxpayers, and I would assume that taxpayers have some rights to control where their money would go. And It is worth to mention that it is difficult to imagine that such eminent post – Head of municipal cultural institutions and Director of Teatr Ósmego Dnia – highly subsidized venture, was taken by somebody who is not a part of the establishment. And in fact Ewa Wójciak’s point of view on Pope, on Catholicism is shared by almost entire Polish establishment, so is the vulgar language and verbal agression. All I can say is that this article is turning things upside down. The post -communist establishment is the oppressor and ordinary people are oppressed. Local authorities in Poznań do not consist of ex-apparatchiks only, some people from “licensed” opposition party Law and Justice manage to get there as well, so no wonder that they support popular point of view. All that stories that Ewa Wójciak was affected by censorship in 1970’s are not worth too much. Over 300 people were killed in Poland between 1970 – 1984. And by the way the last three victims of communist secret police in 1989 were Catholic Priests, Niedzielak, Zych & Suchowolec. Ewa Wójcik was always on the safe side.

By: Felek

Felek — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:39:00 +0000

Id like to disagree! Her behaviour was unworthy of so who is on the national payroll- się should have list der position imho

By: Jeffrey Goldfarb

Jeffrey Goldfarb — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:45:00 +0000

Your welcome Kathleen. It is not with pleasure, but deep concern that I posted this. And thanks for pointing out my translation mistake. Too busy, doing too many things, is my excuse. Correction made.

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:21:00 +0000

Theater of the Eighth Day reviewed in the New York Times in 2009: http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/theater/13performing.html?_r=1&

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:27:00 +0000

Thanks for this, Jeff! I had seen something in Polish on the Internet, but not understood all the details. It’s disturbing that in now so-called democratic Poland, rights like freedom of speech and privacy are still not respected. It just shows that you can’t always take totalitarianism out of the heads of people who lived under it. One quibble–the translation of “Teczki” is not “Texts,” but “The Files.”