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Poisonous Flowers of My Homeland

Summary/Abstract: A review of the Balladyna production by Krzystof Garbaczewski (direction) and Marcin Cecko (script and dramaturgy; the Polish Theatre in Poznań, prem: 25 I 2013). Wichowska sees in Balladyna a masterfully carried out attack on all those norms and definitions stabilizing identity from the top down, such as gender, the body, natural law, family, nationhood, tradition and culture. The author tracks the various motifs and layers contained within the production – from influences drawn from BioArt and biotechnology, through the sending up of the theatrical tradition to the issue of brutal patriotic socialization, which can become a form of drilling. She also writes about the autonomous interventions of other artists, which are woven into the production.

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