Country House

"Country House", a "comedy with corpses" is a subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. This send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world.When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, this play was judged unsuitable for the general public because it derided moral, social and dramatic convention. Three years later, as directed by the playwright himself in Lwow, the drama proved an unexpected success with audiences and ever since is Witkacy's most frequently performed work.It is a systematic demolition of stage realism as well as a probing of the elusive boundaries between life and death, exposing the "dark places" of the human psyche.