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Shock Therapy

Summary/Abstract: An article on the play Winter's Journey directed by Maja Kleczewska (Polski Theater in Bydgoszcz – premiere: 23.04.2013, Powszechny Theater in Łódź – premiere: 23.03.2013). Bogucki notes that Kleczewska and Łukasz Chotkowski (dramaturg) perceive Jelinek as an "intellectual terrorist," thus dismissing the irony and comedy in her text and focusing on the gravity, even the pathos of the accusations. The acting also serves this end, described by Bogucki as spastic, with grotesque animal costumes and masks to deform the faces, and a small space surrounded by mirrors creating close contact between the viewers and the actors, who "assault" them with their physicality. As a result, the "response to the sick world presented by Kleczewska more resembles withdrawal than involvement or identification."

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