La Belle Époque w telegraficznym skrócie
La Belle Époque in Shorthand

Summary/Abstract: A review of a performance made based on Tadeusz Słobodzianek's text Young Stalin: A Probable History in Seven Images (Dramatyczny Theater in Warsaw, premiere: 6.04.2013) directed by Ondrej Spišák. The author writes that the creators of the play have not managed to say anything new about Stalin, nor about totalitarianism as such. The protagonist disappears in an extremely expansive historio-cultural context. The excess of contexts is not linked by an overriding concept to link all the episodes. The historical and ideological backgrounds of emerging Bolshevism are treated as slogans, and the characters are reduced to types. The play reinforces stereotypes with images encoded in the collective unconscious.

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