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Summary/Abstract: In Catherine the Empress (Stefan Żeromski Theater in Kielce, premiere: 13.04.2013) by Wiktor Rubin and Jolanta Janiczak, the story of Catherine the Great is a pretext for reflecting upon physicality and sexuality woven in a web of political significance. The play is told from the perspective of the titular protagonist, formulating her own language and considering her own physicality. The author criticizes the creators' inconsistency in giving the floor to the male protagonist at the conclusion, and the dramaturgy of the play (built on the fragmentary personal history of the Empress) for ultimately being based on the chronology of events – from the Empress's seizure of the throne to the decision to partition Poland. This novel interpretation of the Empress's life, according to Janiczak, thus becomes "a component of the traditional mechanisms of history."

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