Medale, krew i milczenie
Medals, Blood, and Silence

Summary/Abstract: A review of the play War Has Nothing Feminine about It based on reportage by Svetlana Alexyevich, which Michał Borczuch directed for the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (premiere: 21.12.2012). Felbeck notes that this play, presenting the experiences of women fighting in the Red Army, serves as a pretext for discussing the everyday reality of war as recalled by women. Borczuch introduces a woman into the play who transforms from the alter ego of the author to a therapist. The script bypasses the most graphic fragments of the novel, preferring to focus on "the process by which recollections are uncovered after decades of silence.”

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