Antybajka
Anti-Fairy-Tale

Summary/Abstract: A review of the play Peter Pan directed by Ewelina Marciniak (Współczesny Theater in Szczecin, premiere: 22.03.2014) based on a text by Michał Buszewicz that was inspired by James Matthew Barrie's work. The reviewer notes that the creators of the presentation modernized the aesthetic and linguistic layers of the novel, while maintaining the worst models of traditional patriarchal culture. "Perhaps Barrie's text was meant to be taken critically," writes Beszterda, "but this is nowhere to be seen in the play. It is a caricature on a one-to-one scale, and irony without distance does not pass the grade." The numerous intertextual allusions, on the other hand, make this staging rather hermetic.

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