Dziesięć portretów z negatywem w tle
Ten Portraits with a Negative in the Background

Summary/Abstract: Beata Guczalska reviews Platonov, directed by Konstantin Bogomolov at the Stary Theater in Krakow (premiere: 19.12.2015), pointing out that the casting of males for the female roles and females for the male roles was not meant to prompt reflection upon gender issues. To her mind, the play more aims to examine the nature of theater. She analyzes the actors' interpretations in particular, demonstrating their various strategies in distancing the performer from the character. At the same time, she notes that this distance does not overrule emotion, motivation analysis, and the characters' feelings. In conclusion, she sketches a portrait of the director and, making reference to his Ice at the National Theater in Warsaw, she states that Bogomolov is having difficulty defining his relationship to the Polish stage tradition and his own role within it.

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