The College of Arts and Humanities Institute,

The Polish Studies Center

&

Present

Theatre of the 8th Day
The Files

“…one of the most important events in Polish independent Theater …” ~ Newsweek

“A light, entertaining performance…” ~ Polityka

John Waldron Arts Center
122 S. Waldron Arts Center ~ 812.334.3100

Thursday & Friday November 13th & 14th, 7.30 pm
Saturday, November 15th, 2.30pm (polish language version) and 7.30pm

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THEATRE OF THE EIGHTH DAY, founded in 1964, was one of the most significant groups of the student theater movement from which Polish alternative theater arose. Their willingness to speak with their own voice about the surrounding world got the group into trouble with the Communist state apparatus, even though it had never been intended as a political theater of opposition. Kept under surveillance by the secret police, plagued by the regular police, and accused of committing common crimes, the theater managed to create some of the most important Polish performances of the 1970s.

THE FILES (2007) is a special and unusual performance for the Theatre of the Eighth Day based on actual Secret Police reports on the theater’s activity written during the period from 1975 to 1983 (reports that also covered the actors’ contacts, friendships, and meetings). A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see this extraordinary, historic troupe – in a sardonic docudrama on their art as seen through the eyes of the police.