The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between the awareness of the acting of everyday performances by participants in court trials and the subsequent verdicts. The author discusses this issue on the example of the criminal trial of 1932. The author discusses this issue based on the example of the 1932 criminal trial of Zachariasz Drożyński in the case of the murder of the dancer Iga Korczyńska. She provides an analysis with a particular focus on the way in which lawyers and the defendant prepare and then act their social and professional roles; she also interprets the functions of the audience in the courtroom using performative, feminist and social interactionist theories. In the process, she also reveals the necessary moral contexts of the interwar period which significantly contributed to the outcome of the said cultural performance in the form of a mitigated sentence for the offender.
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