"From Poland with Love," directed by Michal Zadara and written by Paweł Demirski, featured at the 'Teatr Wybrzeze' in Gdansk, has been accused by critics of being fragmentary, pointless, pretentious, asymmetric in form, lost, and devoid of content - just like Poland's youth, who are the play's subject. What better praise could a director dream of?

Sociologists of various stripes are perplexed - Poland, for perhaps the first time in its' history - has a pluralistic youth culture which escapes categorization of any kind. This is apparently troubling for some people, who like to think that each 'generation' has something to express about itself, but seem not to take into account the fact that for the first time in its' multicentury history, Poland's youth has an opportunity to find a calling lower than itself, to go spelunking, if you will. That this process is messy, and that its' representation in Paweł Demirski's "From Poland with Love" apparently does nothing to assuage this state of affairs, has some people screaming "mediocrity!" Others find themselves compelled to recall Aristotle's prescriptions for good poetic structure, while all they really need to do is recall their Aristophanes. In fact, these people seem to sound a bit like old Strepsiades, who screams at his young son: "Oh! You ditch-arsed cynic!" People who r