Country House
A Play in Three Acts (Polish Theatre Archives)
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
ISBN: | 9789057020025 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Published: | 30 September, 1997 |
Format: | Paperback |
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Country House
A Play in Three Acts (Polish Theatre Archives)
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Country House, a 'comedy with corpses,' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy's send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, Country House was judged unsuitable for the general public because it derided moral, social and dramatic con
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