Teatr w poszukiwaniu prawdy (II)
Theater in Search of Truth (2)

Summary/Abstract: In the second part (Part One was published in issue 112) of his report from the Wrocław World as the Place of Truth Festival, Tadeusz Kornaś analyzes a play by Alvis Hermanis: Latvian Love. The director designed fourteen scenes that were not connected by plots, and whose overriding theme was various arranged meetings between men and women. All the stories have the same aesthetic framework: realistic acting, hyper-realistic characterization, an allusive set design, and the grotesque. Kornaś opines that all the episodes create a coherent whole. On the one hand, they present daily interactions as marked by a dominant sense of unfulfilment, and longing for another person. On the other, they form a suggestive and very wide portrait of Latvian society.

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