Vatzlav
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Vatzlav is a play by Polish dramatist and writer Slawomir Mrozek
. It was written between 1968 and 1969 and has 77 scenes. It has been widely produced with productions at the Stratford Festival, off Broadway, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
New York Times writer Mel Gussow
called it "a three-ring circus of a comedy, cataloguing the injustices - and the sheer craziness - of civilization".
Vatzlav is a comedic farce that turns political at every stage. A family has a grown son who wears diapers and is a bear. Oedipus Rex is an old blind man and the protector of all things right. A Genius has a daughter called Justice, who must be 'revealed' to the world. And theres Vatzlav himself, stuck on the island with them.
Slawomir Mrozek
Sławomir Mrożek is a Polish dramatist and writer. In 1963 Mrożek emigrated to France and then further to Mexico. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved back to France....
. It was written between 1968 and 1969 and has 77 scenes. It has been widely produced with productions at the Stratford Festival, off Broadway, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
New York Times writer Mel Gussow
Mel Gussow
Melvyn H. Gussow was an American theater critic, movie critic, and author who wrote for The New York Times for 35 years.-Biography:...
called it "a three-ring circus of a comedy, cataloguing the injustices - and the sheer craziness - of civilization".
Vatzlav is a comedic farce that turns political at every stage. A family has a grown son who wears diapers and is a bear. Oedipus Rex is an old blind man and the protector of all things right. A Genius has a daughter called Justice, who must be 'revealed' to the world. And theres Vatzlav himself, stuck on the island with them.