Reviews for The Mother And Other Unsavory Plays, Vol. 2

The average rating for The Mother And Other Unsavory Plays, Vol. 2 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-03-16 00:00:00 Natalie Ross [image error]

Review # 2 was written on 2019-07-30 00:00:00 Robert Beck This books contains a translation of 3 of Witkiewicz's plays and a short biography. Each play also has a separate introduction. Generally the book can be summed up in the words from the introduction to the third play: "At times it seems less a play than the chaotic outpourings of a man's obsessions and sense of horror in the face of a ghastly world". The author was known to paint and write after a cocktail of alcohol and drugs - and the surreality of these plays reflect that! Still I got through them and they have a weirdly engrossing nature to them. Half the time they made no sense, but the general sense of menace and the loss of individuality in the face of totalitarianism comes across loud and clear.