Ikona PRL-u w scenicznej wariacji dozwolonej od lat szesnastu

Abstract

The subject of this article is an analysis of the “Long Live the War!!!” play prepared by Monika Strzępka, based on Paweł Demirski’s text. The performance was created based on the novel by Janusz Przymanowski called “Four tank men and a dog”, but mainly it refers to the iconic television series realized under the same title. The play has usually been regarded as unmasking of the war myth included in the story of the series. However – according to the creators’ intentions –the polemics with its socialistic correctness and a phenomenon of multigenerational popularity is also supposed to show how the narrations that dominate in the culture control the public discourse. The author presents the artistic strategies applied by Strzępka and Demirski, used for working through the main threads and characters in the series. She discusses, among other things, the ostentatious annihilation of the plot, deconstruction of the characters’ identities, the illusionless game with the initial clues.