Banalny nacjonalizm teatralny. Amerykańskie tournée „Black Watch”
Fashioning a Scottish Operative: Black Watch and Banal Theatrical Nationalism on Tour in the US

Summary/Abstract: Zerdy's thoughts are focused on Black Watch – a stylized documentary performance by the Scottish National Theater, whose premiere took place in 2006. The play combines fragments of conversations between the author, Gregory Burke, and Black Watch soldiers returning from the war, with fictional scenes played out at the Camp Dogwood base in Iraq. According to the author of the text, the wide-spanning tour of the play through the United States creates a travelling national operative, building and questioning aspects of Scottishness in the play. Though these have a symbolic value, they also have material consequences that derive from the shared histories of Scotland and America and the future of Scottish cultural endeavors.

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