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Old Woman Incubating

Old Woman Incubating

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 24, 2021

Runtime

1h 7m

Genres

TV Movie

Original Title

Stara kobieta wysiaduje

Production Companies

TVP

Director

Andrzej Barański

Description

Różewicz's play from 1968 is rather a dramatized picture, closer to the open formula of poetry than to the traditional dramatic structure. This is an important voice of a poet concerned about the future of the world. The drama shows a civilization threatened with extinction, dominated by consumerist ideals, mental emptiness, disappearance of authorities and moral decay. The title character symbolizes life, energy and the immutability of the basic laws of nature. In Barański's staging, he moves in a wheelchair. The piece consists of two parts. The first takes place in a botanical garden, the second in the scenery of a huge junkyard, which symbolizes modern civilization.