The play titled 'On saturday at eight', which is premiered at the New Theatre in Poznan, gives an unique opportunity to analyse our marriage relationship. The psychoterapist is interpreting the relation between the characters of the theatre.
Zoe comes out as narcissistic and hysterical singer, who was in relationship with numbers of men and then parted away with them. She has mastered how to use her beauty to attract adorators and flirt with them and win their sympathy.
Max is symbiotic and compulsive judge in the Miss District competition. His obsession is his love for Zoe, whom he sees as an ideal woman for himself, and cannot think to live without her or without thinking about her. He plans every element of his daily routine according to her, sits at window for hours to see her, has joined pedicure course because her husband is a pedicure as he thinks that knowledge of pedicure has differentiated him with his lover. It is Zoe who makes him carry on and he exists only because of his relation with Zoe otherwise he is like dead.
Shared disorder
Relationship between these two characters of this theaterical play 'On saturday at eight' of Hanocha Levina staged at the New Theatre in Poznan has become the subject of psychological analysis of the unfulfilled expectations of partners. "Based on psychoanalytic achievements, systematic family therapy and communication theory, Jurg Willi postulated collission concept, which says that marital conflicts are results of neurotic disorders of both partners, explains Weronika Żytkowiak-Braciak from the theraupetic and personal development laboratory. Collission concept theory studies unintentional conflict which one carries from the childhood, literally secret misunderstanding, where each partner's problem is strongly related with continuous failure and expectations.
As time passes the real face of Zoe reveals. Most probably her problem is rooted to experience of some serious loss in her life resulting fear of closeness and leaving. However, the most secretive desire of Zoe is to be loved. She confess that at the end of the last scene so he should continue loving her, while he believes that it is she who needs to love him.
Why are you not like others?
"Both are not in a situation to realise their desire, she is unfit for love, and he loves her too much - each of them is carrying neurotic need of love," said Żytkowiak-Braciak. -Of the all words, which Zoe uses in her answer to Max, perhaps most hurtful are "Why are you not like others?" and further one get to know "If you were like others, I would have loved you", explains psychotherapist.
