Stanislaw Igancy Witkiewicz
Polish playwright, philosopher, painter and novelist. Born Warsaw 24 February, 1885; Died 18 September, 1939
Stage Works
- Maciej Korbowa i Bellatrix (Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix).
Tragedy, 5 acts. Written 1918. Published 1962.
- Pragmatysci (The Pragmatists). Play, 3 acts. Written 1919.
Published 1920. Produced Warsaw, Teatr Elsynor, Dec. 29, 1921.
- Tumor Mózgowicz (Tumor Brainiowicz). Drama, 3 acts
with prologue. Written 1920. Published 1921. Produced Cracow,
Teatr Slowackiego, June 30, 1921.
- Mister Price, czyli Bzik tropikalny (Mr. Price, or Tropical
Madness). Small Drama, 3 acts. Written 1920 in collaboration
with Eugenia Dunin-Borkowska. Published 1962. Produced Warsaw,
Teatr Nowotci, July 2, 1926.
- Nowe Wyzwolenie (The New Deliverance). Drama, 1 act. Written
1920. Produced Zakopane, Towarzystwo Teatralne (amateur), Mar.
21, 1925. Produced Warsaw, Teatr Maly, May 28, 1926.
- Oni (They). Drama, 21/2 acts. Written 1920. Published 1962.
Produced Wroclaw, Teatr Dramatyczny, Jan. 30, 1965.
- Panna Tutli-Putli (Miss Tootli-Pootli). Libretto to an operetta,
3 acts. Written 1920. Published 1974. Produced Warsaw, Ateneum,
Dec. 25, 1975.
- W malym dworku (In a Small Country House). Play, 3 acts. Written
1921. Published 1948. Produced Toruri, Teatr Miejski, July 8,
1923.
- Niepodleglosó trojkgtow (The Independence of Triangles).
Play, 4 acts. Written 1921. Published 1962.
- Metafizyka dwuglowego cielçcia (Metaphysics of a Two-headed
Calf). Tropical-Australian play, 3 acts. Written 1921. Published
1962. Produced Poznarí, Teatr Nowy, Apr. 14, 1928.
- Gyubal Wahazar, czyli Na przelçczach Bersensu (Gyubal
Wahazar, or Along the Cliffs of the Absurd). Non-Euclidian drama,
4 acts. Written 1921. Published 1962. Produced Poznaú,
Teatr Polski, Sept. 10, 1966.
- Kurka wodna
(The Water Hen). Spherical tragedy, 3 acts.
Written 1921. Published 1962. Produced Cracow, Teatr Slowackiego,
July 20, 1922.
- Bezimienne dzielo (The Anonymous Work). Rather nasty nightmare,
4 acts. Written 1921. Published 1962. Produced Cracow, Teatr
Slowackiego, May 21, 1967.
- Mqtwa czyli Hyrkaniczny swiatopoglgd (The Cuttlefish, or The
Hyrcanian Worldview). Play, 1 act. Written 1922. Published 1923.
Produced Cracow, Teatr Cricot, Dec. 7, 1933.
- Nadobnisie i koczkodany, czyli zielona pigulka (Dainty Shapes
and Hairy Apes, or The Green Pill). Comedy with corpses, 2 acts.
Written 1922. Published 1962. Produced Warsaw, Studencki Teatr
Studyjny (amateur), Mar. 8, 1967. Produced Cracow, Cricot II,
1973.
- Jan Maciej Karol Wscieklica (Jan Maciej Karol Hellcat). Drama
with-out corpses, 3 acts. Written 1922. Published 1962. Produced
Warsaw, Teatr Fredry, Feb. 25, 1925.
- Wariat i zakonnica,
czyli Nie ma ztego, co by na jeszcze gorsze nie wyszlo (The
Madman and the Nun, or There Is Nothing Bad Which Could Not
Turn into Something Worse). Short Play, 3 acts.
Written 1923. Published 1925. Produced Torun, Teatr Miejski,
Apr. 26, 1924. Produced Warsaw, Teatr Maly, May 28, 1926.
- Szalona lokomotywa
(The Crazy Locomotive). Play without a thesis,
2 acts and epilogue. Written 1923. Published 1962. Produced
Cracow, Studencki Teatr 38, June 11, 1965.
- Janulka, córka Fizdejki (Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko).
Tragedy, 4 acts. Written 1923. Published 1962. Produced Wroclaw,
Teatr Wspólczesny im. Edmunda Wiercinskiego, Sept. 6,
1974.
- Matka (The Mother).
Unsavory play, 2 acts and epilogue. Written 1924. Published 1962.
Produced Cracow, Teatr Stary, May 16, 1964.
- Sonata Belzebuba, czyli Prawdziwe zdarzenie w Mordowarze (The
Beelzebub Sonata, or What Really Happened in Mordovar). Play,
3 acts. Written 1925. Published 1938. Produced Bialystok, Teatr
A. Wggierki, Jan 27, 1966.
- Szewcy (The Shoemakers). Scientific play with songs, 3 acts. Writ-ten 1927–1934. Published 1948. Produced Sopot, Panstwowy Teatr Wybrzeie, Oct. 12, 1957.
Lost and fragmentary plays
- Nowa homeopatia zta (The New Homeopathy of Evil). Play in
3 acts. Written 1918(?). Fragment published 1972.
- Filozofowie i cierpiçtnicy, czyli Ladaczyni z Ekbatany
(Philosophers and Martyrs, or The Harlot from Ecbatana). A Persian
tragedy in 3 acts. Written 1920.
- Miçtosza, czyli w sidlach BEZTROSKI (Rumple, or In the
Snares of NONCHALANCE). A comedy in 2 acts with an epilogue. Written
1920.
- Multiflakopulo (Multiflaccopulo). A horrible drama in 3 acts
with a prologue. Written 1920.
- Pentemychos i jej niedoszly wychowanek (Pentemychos and Her
Would-Be Protégé). A small tragedy with a prologue
and an epilogue, in 3 acts. Written 1920.
- Straszliwy wychowawca (The Frightful Tutor). Play in 4 acts.
Written 1920. First two acts published 1935. Produced Cracow, Teatr
Bagatela, Mar. 22, 1935.
- Dobra ciocia Walpurgia (Kind-Hearted Auntie Walpurgia). A comedy
in 2 acts with an epilogue. Written 1921.
- Persy Zwierigtkowskaja (Persy Bestialskaya). Play in 3 acts.
Written 1924. Produced Lódz, Teatr Miejski, May 31, 1927.
- Chaizowe plemiç (The Tribe of Hais). Play. Written 1925(?).
- Zbyteczny czlowiek (A Superfluous Man). Play. Written 1925(?).
- Ponury bçkart Verminestone'u (The Baleful Bastard of
Verminestone).
Play. Written 1926.
- Wampir we flakonie, czyli zapach welonu (The Vampire in the
Flask, or The Smell of the Bridal Veil). Play in 3 acts. Written
1926. Fragment published 1972.
- Póínowieczne sobowtóry (Belated Doppelgangers).
Written 1923–1927.
- Koniec éwiata (The End of the World). Comedy in 3 acts.
Written 1929, in collaboration with Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska.
- Dramat nie rozpoznany (Unidentified drama). Play in 3 acts.
Written in the early 1930s. Act II and fragmens of Act I and II
published 1972. Produced Warsaw, Teatr Maly, Jan. 28, 1978.
16. Tak zwana ludzkosc w oblçdzie (So-called Humanity Gone Mad). Play in 3 acts. Written 1938. Fragment published 1972.
- Glqtwa. (Hangover).
Childhood plays
- Karaluchy (Cockroaches). Comedy in 1 act. Written 1893. Published
1893. Produced Wroclaw, Amateur Theatre Club Olawka, November,
1966. Produced Poznan, Theatre of Puppet and Actor Marcinek,
Apr. 7, 1970.
- Komedie iycia rodzinnego (Comedies of Family Life). 4 short
come-dies. Written 1893. Published 1965.
- Menageria, czyli wybryk slonia (Menagerie, or The Elephant's
Escapades). Comedy in 5 acts. Written 1893. Published 1965. Produced
Wroclaw, Amateur Theatre Club Olawka, November, 1966.
- Ksiçiniczka Magdalena, czyli natrçtny ksigiq (Princess
Magdalena, or The Importunate Prince). Play in 2 parts. Written
1893. Written 1893. Published 1965. Produced Wroclaw, Amateur Theatre
Club Olawka, November, 1966.
- Odwaina Ksiçiniczka (The Courageous Princess). Play in
4 acts. Writ-ten 1893. Published 1965. Produced Poznan, Theatre
of Puppet and Actor Marcinek, Apr. 7, 1970.
- Biedny chtopiec (The Poor Boy). Play in 1 act. Written 1893. Published 1964. Produced Poznan, Theatre of Puppet and Actor Marcinek, Apr. 7, 1970.
Lost childhood plays
- Wojna (War). Written 1893.
- Klotnia o smród (Squabble over a Brat). Written 1893.
Criticism
- Stanisilaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: Czlowiek i twórca, ed. by T. Kotarbinski and J. E. Plomienski, Warsaw, 1957;
- Z. A. Grabowski, "S. I. Witkiewicz: A Polish Poet of Doom," Polish Review, vol. XII, no. 1, 1967;
- Alain van Crugten, S.I. Witkiewicz: Aux sources d'un théâtre nouveau, Lausanne, 1971;
- Pamiçtnik Teatralny, No. 3 (1969) and Nos. 3–4 (1971), Special Witkiewicz Issues;
- Konstanty Puzyna, "Witkacy," in Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Dramaty, Vol. 1, Warsaw, 1972;
- Janusz Degler, Witkacy w teatrze miçdzywojennym, Warsaw, 1973;
- Lech Sokól, Groteska w teatrze Stanislawa Ignacego Witkiewicza, Wroclaw, 1973;
- The Polish Review, XVIII, Nos. 1–2 (1973), Special Witkiewicz Issue; Daniel Gerould, Witkacy:
- A Study of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer, Seattle and London, 1981.