Autoportret z Hermanisem w tle
Autoportrait with Hermanis in the background

Summary/Abstract: Jan Niedziela describes the Vienna premiere of Our Violence and Your Violence (29 May 2016), directed by Oliver Frljić. The performance was inspired by Peter Weiss' Aesthetics of Resistance and it premiered in the year of the centenary of the writer's birth. The author of the review analyses the relationship between the literary original and the Croatian director's work. He gives a detailed description of several scene of the performance, pointing out their political radicalism. The creators of the performance proclaim the idea of a multicultural, open society, at the same time condemning the way in which European societies allow the rebirth of nationalisms and violence towards refugees: they attack European colonialism. They also express their opinions concerning the attitudes of the theatre milieu towards the refugees (including that presented by Alvis Hermanis).

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