Opowieści prowincjonalne. Głos prowincjusza czy kolejna (wielko)miejska fantazja?
Provincial Tales: The Voice of the Provinces or Another (Big-)City Fantasy?

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of this text Monika Świerkosz describes and analyzes how the concept of provinciality functions in various cultural, artistic, sociological, and historical contexts. She calls attention to two tendencies in conceiving the provincial, involving its mythologization on the one hand and its demonization on the other. Then she recalls and describes two Białystok performances that address the subject of the “provincial”:Agnieszka Korytkowska-Mazur's Unripe Fruit, based on a book by Wioletta Grzegorzewska (a rather unsuccessful play, to her mind, based on a fine book) and Adam Biernacki's Almonds and Raisins (a project that brilliantly depicts life in a Polish/Jewish border town).

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