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Witkiewicz and the Theatre of Death
1994Such a critical reception for a first play frequently guarantees the playwright instant box-office success and automatic elevation into the canon. But the production of Tumor Brainiowicz at the Slowacki Theatre in Krakow in June 1921 was no breakthrough for Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy, 1885–1939), playwright, painter, critic, aesthetician ...
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Witkiewicz, Artaud, and the Theatre of Cruelty
Comparative Drama, 1969Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, called Witkacy ( 1895-1939) , was a Polish writer and philosopher of genius. Although he was relatively unknown and unacclaimed in his lifetime, today his work is exciting a wider interest because he is recognized as a precursor of the Theatre of Cruelty. His ideas and his techniques have much in common with the theories of
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The Postmortal Life of Savages: Witkiewicz and Malinowski Disinterred
TDR/The Drama Review, 2016In the burial rites of the Trobrianders Bronislaw Malinowski describes, a body is removed from its grave so that certain bones can be used as relics. He was joined in the tropics by Polish playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, whose bones, it was later discovered—after his remains were relocated twice—were nowhere to be found.
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz: The Increase and Excess of Facial Expression
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, 2023TERESA Brus
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