Gospodarka, głupcze!
The Economy, Idiot!

Summary/Abstract: A review of Mercantile Contracts based on a play by Elfriede Jelinek, directed by Paweł Miśkiewicz (Dramatyczny Theater in Warsaw, premiere: 3 III 2012). Łuksza first explains Jelinek’s “economic opera” and its attempt to expose the global financial system, comparing it to the documentary film by Charles Ferguson on the same topic, Inside Job (2010). Only after establishing this context does Łuksza describe and analyze three sequences in the play of varying emotional shades, but with the same calm tone of absurdity, with special attention to the pointed political and critical implications of the whole.

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