Machinacje
Machinations

Summary/Abstract: A review of The Crazy Locomotive: A Dramatic Opera, based on a text by Stanisław Witkacy, directed by Michał Zadara (Polski Theater in Bydgoszcz, premiere: 13.04.2013). Schreiber claims that Zadara's play has been dominated by machines: an electric railroad, cameras and screens, theft detectors. "This is not only about suggesting that a machine hides behind the play, but about building a play that is a machine,” writes Schreiber. As such, the play is a successful formal experiment. In terms of its subject, however, it would seem anachronistic, however, because Zadara makes no attempt to update Witkacy's text, in which the symbol of civilization is the steam engine.

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