Here I'm pretty much going to keep my comments to the one play 'The madman and the Nun' and maybe flesh it out with a little bit of information on its creator who was also known as 'Witkacy'. Witkiewicz came from an aristocratic and somwhat eccentric artistic Polish family. His mother was a music teacher and his father a painter, an architect and an art critic. He was born in 1885 and as a child he was allowed free rein to explore anything artistic or intellectual in nature. He actually began writing plays when he was 8 years old. Beginning then and throughout his life (before he committed suicide in 1939 an event precipitated by the Russian invasion of Western Poland in the aftermath of the German invasion the precipitated World War II)--his plays always retained absurdist traits very much in the spirit of Artaud or later on Ionesco, Beckett, Genet or what have you. As a kind of sideline there are also a couple novels and a quite a number of museum worthy paintings especially portraits of friends and acquaintances just about all of which were painted with the painter on some kind of narcotic or other. Stanislaw also fought in World War I as an officer in the Russian army as Poland at that time was considered part of Russia. Anyway let's go to 'the Madman and the Nun'. A very short play. Alexander is in a cell in a straitjacket. Sister Anna a very pretty nun is sent into the cell by Dr. Bidello to watch over him as he sleeps and to use her feminine intuition 'to get to the dark spot in his soul'. What eventually happens though is Alexander quickly wins her over as an ally and they fall in love almost on the spot. Enter the prison's authorities to take back control of the situation. Alexander breaks free of them and hangs himself. And as the rest of the plays characters stare stunned and gaping at Alexander's corpse hanging from the wall a completely healthy Alexander walks back into the cell and walks off with Anna leaving the prison staff to turn on themselves. it's a very crazy play. ( )