The Pleasure of Becoming-Minoritarian
Agata Adamiecka-Sitek
aadamiecka@gmail.comThe Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8131-2679
Abstract
The article discusses Tomasz Śpiewak’s Żaby (The Frogs), directed by Michał Borczuch at Warsaw’s Teatr Studio (2018). The author analyses the non-obvious politicality of the production. She reveals its passage (unique in Polish theatre) between minoritarian identity politics, manifested in strong gestures of camp and gay aesthetics, and the Deleuzian- Guattarian politics of becoming-other, realized through the liberated work of production-desire as the most important social force. What is really at stake in this performance is to propose a project of a new community, radically reformulating the post-Romantic models of our collective (un)consciousness. In reconstructing this project, the author of the article also reveals strategies of using and displacing ancient themes not only from The Frogs, but also The Clouds and The Birds by Aristophanes, Alcestis by Euripides, as well as motifs from vase painting. Appositely displaced, classical antiquity was used here to construct the community’s spiritual dimension around the most profoundly understood Dionysian motifs of the elimination of the dualism of life and death.
Keywords:
Michał Borczuch, identity politics, political theatre, gay theatre, camp, sexuality, communityReferences
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Agata Adamiecka-Sitekaadamiecka@gmail.com
The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8131-2679
Agata Adamiecka-Sitek - Professor at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw, theatre scholar, critic, and lecturer. She focuses on the corporeality and political nature of art, as well as institutional critique. For many years, she was the head of the Research and Publishing Department at the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw. She is the head of the research projects CHANGE NOW! and Safe Space: Good Practices and Tools for the Transformation of Theatre Education, which are carried out at the Theatre Institute in cooperation with European theatre academies.
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