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Country House (W Malym Dworku) by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (aka Witkacy)
Thursday, April 29, 2010, at 7:30pm
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Country House Director's Notes
The play Country House by Polish writer and theatre visionary Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz is extremely irreverent in its take on the 19th century play and novel of manners.
These are familiar to the discerning reader from the works of Turgenev, other Russian writers, as well as Witold Gombrowicz in his novel Possessed. We are exposed to a theatrical convention as old as theatre itself- the dead who return to earth to advise the living. In Hamlet the Ghost guides Hamlet to revenge. Here in Witkiewicz's Country House the Ghost in this black comedy returns to make matters worse by taunting husband and love and in a macabre twist settle scores with husband, lover and family,
It is as if this were an early version of the film Montenegro with its social satire, comedy of manners, attitudes and its surprising denouement.
-Robert McNamara
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