It all began with the play "Wyspiański Underground." On the surface, the play was just one in a long line of noble endeavors undertaken to honor the artist during Wyspiański Year in 2007. Yet this particular play turned the traditional view of Wyspiański on its' head. "Wyspiański is energy. We didn't want to castrate him, or approach him on our knees," noted the artist behind the play, Bartosz Szydłowski, who is in charge of the Łaźnia Nowa Theater in Nowa Huta, near Krakow.

Exactly 100 years after Wyspiański's burial, his work was alive and well in Polish theater, reinterpreted by six different artists from very different musical worlds: Stanisław Soyki, Maciek Maleńczuk, and the Agressiva 69 band, as well as NOT, Oszibarack, Wu-Hae, and Pustki. Thanks to the efforts of the Łaźnia Nowa, Wyspiański was reborn in free jazz, underground rock, and avantegard pop. This unique combination was enthusiastically supported by audiences. The December concert was voted the best cultural event of 2007 in a poll conducted by Polish television. Szydłowski betrayed the secret of their success: "We just approached Wyspiański as though he were an old friend of ours. Wyspiański was a rebel, he was a radical, and he was always trying to escape the limits of bourgeois confinement in Krakow. He wrote about Poles in a way that no one else could match, but in a way he also failed, since his pessimistic analysis still holds true today." This process is still taki