Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939)

Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939)

"He wrote: 'On leaving the theater, one should feel that he has woken up from some strange dream in which even the commonest of things possessed some strange unfathomed charm characteristic of dreams incomparable to anything else.'

This dream-like world is the only way, according to Witkacy that the theater can fulfill its task, which is to transport the spectator into an exceptional state, the state of sensuous comprehension of the Mystery of Existence which, in its pure form, cannot be reached so easily in the passing of daily life."

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