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In the Shadow of Maturing Daughters

Summary/Abstract: A review of the play Daughters, directed by Małgorzata Głuchowska, based on Zofia Nałkowska’s Diaries and fragments of texts by other authors (premiere: 18 February 2011, Dramatyczny Theater in Warsaw). As Rataj notes, Daughters is made in the spirit of the original Young-Poland-era cabarets, though the director has departed from the “gender roles” that reigned at the time, and has pushed women into the foreground. Consequently, Głuchowska “has managed to create a play as complex as a box filled with surprises. […] Gently witty and subversive toward the fin de siècle climate, and yet all the while deeply charmed by it.”

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