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The Devaluation of Values

Summary/Abstract: A review of two plays by Ewelina Marciniak (director) and Michał Buszewicz (text), which are linked by the theme of the collapse of (primarily) family and moral values. Mission(Stefan Żeromski Theater in Kielce, premiere: 12.10.2013) presents the story of Włodek, an ex-soldier, who boards himself up in a mountain hut to flee from his relatives' expectations – thus condemning himself to a life of uncertainty, but one that is safer than spending time with the family. Lemańska sees The Miser (Polski Theater in Bydgoszcz, premiere: 28.11.2013) as an interesting approach. Moliere's intelligently rewritten play becomes an "unsettling morality tale" of contemporary people who are emotionally impaired and afflicted by the capitalist desire to possess.

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