A performance directed by the world-renowned American avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson is the artistic highlight of today’s celebrations in Gdansk of Solidarity’s 30th anniversary.
Entitled Solidarity – Your Angel is Called Freedom, it consists of four parts, each dedicated to a key figure in Solidarity’s history: Pope John Paul II, Lech Wałęsa, Father Jerzy Popieluszko who was murdered by the communist secret police, and Anna Walentynowicz, one of the movement’s founders who was killed in the recent plane crash in Russia.
In his show, Wilson makes use of the various elements of the shipyard landscape, such as cranes, workshops, roofs and the hall in which the agreement with the communist regime was signed.
He told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that his idea is to show Solidarity as a mass movement which had an impact on world history.
The two hour show is to open with Krzysztof Penderecki’s Fanfare and culminate with Vivo XXX, a piece written by the young Polish composer Pawel Mykietyn specially for Solidarity’s anniversary.
President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk are to attend the event. Former President and one of the founders of Solidarity, Lech Wałęsa, is to decorate with Solidarity Medals four foreigners for their support in Poland’s democratic transformations. They are Donna Baranski-Walker from the United States, Jacku Challot from France, Thomas Johansson from Sweden and Karin Wolff from Germany. (mk)
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