Mój głos. Nic nie mówi
My Voice: It Says Nothing

Summary/Abstract: This review of Elfriede Jelinek’s Princess Dramas, directed by Michał Borczuch (Slovensko mladinsko gledališče in Ljubljana, premiere: 1.12.2015), forwards the thesis that the Slovene staging is a very consistent development of the Polish director’s style, as well as a faithful presentation of a series of works by an Austrian playwright who creates a fairy-tale model with its Freudian subtext of cruelty and sex, its repressed desires, the inevitable failure of its attempts to make dreams come true, its unsuccessful departures from reality, and its painful lessons in growing up. Jelinek and Borczuch’s princesses are a prologue to a woman – but the play titled Woman could only be directed by a man: a prince, a prince charming, a husband. These women remain dependent on male authority, the male gaze, male language; any attempt to speak one’s own language ends in catastrophe.

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