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Slumbering Hearts

Summary/Abstract: Ice, based on the novel by Vladimir Sorokin, and directed by Konstantin Bogomolov (Narodowy Theater in Warsaw, premiere: 25.01.2014), combines a critical assessment of Russian society in the early twenty-first century with a pessimistic and ironic vision of the history of the twentieth century. The reviewer feels that the play fails in terms of realizing its basic staging idea. The enormous trust that the director placed in the writer is visible in his showcasing of the text and his reduction of other means of expression. Agata Łuksza sees much untapped potential in the adaptation of this novel, which provides the opportunity to show the foreignness and inhumanity in "awoken" man-machines who are insensitive to hurt and suffering.

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