Chłodno
Chill

Summary/Abstract: A review of the play Lenz based on Georg Büchner’s story, directed by Barbara Wysocka (National Theater in Warsaw, premiere: 18 February 2011). Katafiasz states that the use of “distance, irony, and the constant manifestation of acts on stage as mere signifiers […] serve nothing.” Regarding the play as an attempt to capture the moment when a modern type of neurotic sensitivity was born, Katafiasz compares the play to Michał Borczuch’s Werter, which, in his opinion, was far more interesting in its treatment of the Romantic myth, in terms of its theatrical language and its manner of apprehending the world.

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