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When no Street Makes Sense: The War by Young Polish Stage Directors and Playwrights

Summary/Abstract: The memory of the Second World War proves to be an important screen onto which young Polish artists project their conscience. This is testified by a number of events on the art scene, among which two plays seem to be of particular significance: Paweł Passini’s Hamlet 44 (2008) and Dorota Masłowska’s Między nami dobrze jest (previewed in 2008). Passini and Masłowska founded their distinctive visions of reality on their mediated memory of the war. In Masłowska’s play, the war initiates a permanent disaster which assumes the form of a real and mental dumpster. For Passini, the war represents a time when ethical signposts were erected, allowing a contemporary Hamlet to reconstruct his lost subjectivity.

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