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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 convention. Three years
later, as directed by the playwright himself in Lw?w, the drama
proved an unexpected success with audiences (although it only ran
for four nights) and ever since has been among Witkacy's most
frequently performed works.
Today we can appreciate Country House not only as a systematic
demolition of stage realism, but also as an anxious probing of the
elusive boundaries between life and death, exposing the ''dark
places'' of the human psyche that make us laugh nervously.
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 convention. Three years
later, as directed by the playwright himself in Lw w, the drama
proved an unexpected success with audiences (although it only ran
for four nights) and ever since has been among Witkacy's most
frequently performed works.
Today we can appreciate Country House not only as a systematic
demolition of stage realism, but also as an anxious probing of the
elusive boundaries between life and death, exposing the ''dark
places'' of the human psyche that make us laugh nervously.
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