The Birth of Hostility

Time

50

Language

pl

Tickets

admission free

Credits

Directed, dramaturgy: Wiktor Bagiński, set design: Anna Oramus, music: Bartek Prosuł, video: Natan Berkowicz, cast: Weronika Janosz, Paweł Charyton, Adam Borysowicz, Alan Al-Murtatha, production: Malta Festival Poznań, co-production: Teatr Łaźnia Nowa.

 

Who is the ‘nigger’? Who was he or she yesterday? Who are they today? To me? To us? In David Wark Griffith’s 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation, the ‘nigger’ led the white protagonists to insanity. The ‘nigger’ of today is also a gay person, a Muslim, a woman in a headscarf, an Arab, a refugee, a Jew. The fixation on the Other is evolving. We are still made up of various borrowings from alien entities, and have, therefore, always been beings of the borderline.