Christ returns to Poland

Marta Kufel examines the process whereby meaning is created in the dramatization of the return of Christ in a work of art, and the socio-political implications it has. She takes the example of Apocalypsis cum figuris. Jerzy Grotowski’s play is put in the context of the critical sermon by Primate Stefan Wyszyński of 1976, and read counter to the interpretative tradition of the category of infidelity as expressing social tensions and the desire to replace an oppressive reality with the fantasy of a better world.