Chaos historii
The Chaos of History

Summary/Abstract: Maria Bałus begins her review of The End of History (CDN Théâtre de Lorient, La Colline, premiere: 13.10.2015) by describing the set. She then writes of the speech in the opening scene, taken from Gombrowicz's “The Case against Poetry,” which serves as a point of departure for staging the unfinished drama History. Bałus mentions the plot lines concerning cultural otherness and homosexuality, which are signaled but undeveloped. She takes a critical view of the scene that introduces the debate on the end of history motif, in the form of monologues by various thinkers (Hegel, Derrida, Marx, and Fukuyama all appear), and the alternately parodical and tear-jerking depiction of the history of Europe, with Poland in the role of the victim.

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