"Most certainly one where there are good plays, in which something is at stake. I think that theater is at an impass. I keep going to plays by young artists and I am often scared out of my mind. They treat audiences with special effects, and focus on form - the type that isn't really food for thought - and I just often don't know what they are on about. And yet the director is there to make things clearer, to show the play in a way that the public will understand. For instance, to make Shakespeare, who uses complex language, more contemporary. I am not an enemy of the young artists, but I do see them as making plays which could potentially turn people off to theater."

"I am afraid that they do this because they take the universalism of some writers too literarly. They think that since someone uses universal themes in their play, then you can completely change everything about that play as long as the themes remain the same. But doing this often takes the universal themes out of the play because it removes the action from the context that helps demonstrate those themes. This also is a sign of lack of trust in the audience's intelligence, and in words. Young artists, for some reason, keep forcing actors into physical exhibitionism; to jump round the stage, to yell, to take their clothes off. Maybe instead of doing this with literary work, they should write something set to the tune of fitness tapes?" MI: What kind of theater do people need most? Olga Lipińska: Most certainly one where there are good plays, in which something is at stake. I think that theater is at an impass. I keep going to plays by young artists and I am often scared out of my