She was a friend of someone else was made in a country where women have limited access to reproductive health and where abortion is now illegal. Despite immense protests, the women of Poland were simply denied their rights. It could be an activist success story but She was a friend of someone else is a story with too many beginnings, too few endings – and an exhausted narrator.
In this creation, Gosia Wdowik explores the link between burnout and activism: the fear that rights are not acquired forever, and the moment one stops paying attention, they risk disappearing.
