Waszym obowiązkiem jest dostrzegać rzeczywistość
Your Duty Is to Perceive the Reality

Summary/Abstract: A review of the play Ludwig II, based on the film by Luchino Visconti, directed by Ivo van Hove (premiere: 3 March 2011, Münchner Kammerspiele). The play tells the life story of the famous Bavarian “king of hearts” – Ludwig II – a homosexual enamoured with Wagner, who funded many famous buildings, was declared mentally ill, and was dethroned; he drowned in 1886 in vague circumstances. The play chiefly concentrates on the conflict “between the socio-political function and the personal/artistic idealism of the king,” and dusts off the myth of the “king of hearts.” In Felbeck’s view, the performance is less bold than Visconti’s film, because it avoids many troublesome issues and poses no uncomfortable questions.

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