Poland’s Great National Epic Play Becomes The Same Sort Of Cultural Battleground That ‘Hamilton’ Just Became In The US

Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady (usually rendered in English as Forefathers’ Eve), a text every Pole studies in school, has been used to make strong cultural and political statements for decades. And, as in the States, a low-turnout election recently brought a right-wing nationalist government to power. So the new production of Dziady at the 2016 Theatre Olympics in Wrocław this past fall was potentially far more fraught than Hamilton became after Mike Pence saw it.

UK’s Second City Slashes Culture Funding By A Third

“On Thursday, Birmingham Rep, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Midlands Arts Centre were among organisations told they would receive heavy cuts to funding. The cuts are not out of the blue and organisations had been braced for the news. But it is the scale and, they said, lack of time to implement them that is striking.”

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AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-12-15