Ocalenie nie musi być śmiercią

In the first part of the article, the author critically refers to her book Pytanie o wspólnotę. Jerzy Grzegorzewski i Jan Klata (The question of community. Jerzy Grzegorzewski and Jan Klata). She looks at her own feminist reading of Grzegorzewski’s performances through the prism of Audre Lorde’s essay The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House and looks at the number and function of women in the institutions he managed. She also notes that the last performance, On. Drugi powrót Odysa (He. The Second Return of Odysseus), was Grzegorzewski’s only production based on a script written by a woman. At the same time, she sees in it yet another emancipatory potential. The subject of her father’s alcohol addiction, raised by Antonina Grzegorzewska and staged on the national stage by him, can be understood as a stage coming-out of an alcoholic and his daughter as a co-addict. Putting forward the thesis that the play operated on the poetics of ugly feelings described by Sianne Ngai, Kwaśniewska analyses its reception, wondering why it failed to cause a debate about the normalisation of drinking in Polish theatre and urges us to start such a discussion now.