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Violence Is in Us

Author(s): Tomasz Kireńczuk
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Theatre; ohan Simons; Review

Summary/Abstract: A review of Johan Simons’s play based on Cleansed, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis (Münchner Kammerspiele, premiere: 21 I 2012). Kireńczuk very precisely describes and analyzes all three parts of the play, simultaneously trying to find the links between them. Writing on Cleansed, he notes the process whereby violence becomes widespread and banal, leading Simons’s play to the conclusion that “we are all Tinkers.” Writing on Crave, he states that the director hid behind the text, less creating the world than revealing its emotional and intellectual stores. In 4.48 Psychosis, finally, “Simons focuses on the situation of the individual trapped in a self-created world of internal oppositions.” This drama also combines all three parts of the play.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 108
  • Page Range: 54-58
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish