Eros i masakra
Eros and Massacre

Summary/Abstract: An article on a performance by Angélika Liddell, All the Sky above the Earth (The Wendy Syndrome), presented during Berlin Day at the 49th Counterpoint Review of Small Form Theater in Szczecin. Jopek notes that the island which is the scene of the action joins three space-time spheres: Never-Never Land, the island of Peter Pan, a utopian space of eternal youth, recollections of a journey to Shanghai which evoked longing in Liddell for a lost time of youth, and Utøya, an island where Anders Breivik shot sixty-nine (mainly young) people on 22 July 2011. Jopek perceives niggling contradictions and dependencies between these spaces and the associations they evoke around the theme of youth – whether eternal or irreversibly cut short. She also notes that the play is both a pointed critique of bourgeois society and its ethical principles and a self-effacing denigration of the figure of the narcissist performer.

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