Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.
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