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FEMALE MANNEQUIN
FUR CLOAK
human mechanisation
interwar Polish drama
Ladies Slippers
Left Door
MANNEQUIN SIZE
mechanisation in twentieth-century drama
Monsieur Le
Open Scissors
Party Game
political theatre studies
Product details
- ISBN 9789057550522
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
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This play, by Futurist poet Bruno Jasienski, is an outstanding example of the joining of left-wing politics and avant-garde interest in human mechanization that characterized the experimental theatre of Poland in the inter-war years.
Stalinism and the purges cut short Jasienski's career and prevented productions of his play for many years - except for a brilliant constructivist staging in Prague in 1933. The Mannequins' Ball can now take its place along with Capek's R.U.R. as one of the major twentieth-century dramas making use of the themes and techniques of human automata.
Reproduced in this volume are the eight woodcuts by Moor which accompanied the original Moscow publication in 1931.
Authored by Gerould, Daniel; Jaslenski, Bruno
