The fall of communism in Poland has meant that theatre is no longer a substitute for normal public and political life—the Denmark of Hamlet has ceased to be the necessary metaphor for our prison, and the attractions of a gloomy Prince, representing repressed Poland, have waned. There is now a burgeoning interest in Shakespearian comedy, shared by theatre people and their spectators.
The banana protest, a mass reenactment of Consumer Art (1972), a series of photographs by Natalia LL that was removed from the National Museum in April 2019, was staged as a grassroots protest against this act of censorship and the Polish conservative government’s “decency” policy as well as the underrepresentation of women’s art in museums and galleries.
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