Jan Klata, the well known director, is working on a new play to be put on in November, which treats of the post-war fate of Poles and Germans. The subject has raised concerns in the office of Senator Dorota Arciszewska-Mielewczyk of the ruling Law & Justice Party. She is also the director of a Polish organization whose intention it is to prevent Germans from regaining rights to property held prior to World War II. "The mission of our cultural institutions, financed by the Polish taxpayer," says Senator Mielewczyk, "is to nurture Polish culture. Theaters should tell the story of Poles and their tragic losses. In Wrocaw, as on the coast, this is a complex subject. This is why we preserve the historical truth and speak about what Poles went through during World War II."

Alerted by letters from voters who have heard about Jan Klata's project, the Senator has written a letter to the Director of the Współczesny Theater in Wrocław, where she states that "with all due respect for the sanctity of theater, I request that you provide me with the text of the new play so that I can form my opinion of it on this basis." The Senator adds that "people who were dislocated from Gdynia during the war were angered by the fact that a play is being made in Poland about the fate of dislocated Germans. This is no surprise since this subject is being used in Germany by Erika Steinbach and Rudi Pawelka." The letter from the Senator was both a shock and a surprise for the Director General of the Współczesny Theater in Wrocaw, Krystyna Meissner. "This is censorship - a type of censorship unknown to me since Communism fell in 1989. Besides, the text hasn't even been written yet. And even if it had been written, the text is only the text - it isn't the final version of