"We are living in a country which is still going through a strong phase of turbo-capitalism, where everything is happening very quickly and people count for less and less. Such tendencies as poverty and the decreased value of the individual are visible in the whole of Europe. We theatre people have to take a stance on this," says the director of the theatre in Jelenia Góra, WOJTEK KLEMM.

Małgorzata Potoczak-Pełczyńska: Just ahead of us - this Saturday - we have the premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play, "The resistible rise of Arturo Ui" [rehearsal photographs], which you are directing in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. It is not by chance that you have chosen this particular play as a beginning. Wojtek Klemm: "The resistible rise of Arturo Ui", a play about the coming to power of a gangster in Chicago, a paraphrase of the taking over of power by Hitler in Germany, is told from today's point of view: it is about our country and the taking over of power by the extreme right. This phenomenon is appearing today all over Europe, but here it is being done in the worst style. As a Pole, as a person living in this country, I am bothered by the fact that we have in authority people who are bordering on fascism and criminality. So really Brecht is talking about how the establishment allows in a criminal who governs through hatred and fear. Poland is a country in which fear is rul