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Janusz Głowacki

    September 13, 1938 – August 19, 2017
    Janusz Głowacki
    Przyszłem
    Good night, Dżerzi
    Bezsenność w czasie karnawału
    Z głowy
    Antigone in New York
    Hunting Cockroaches and Other Plays
    • 2010

      Full Length, Dark comedy / Casting: 3m, 1f / Scenery: Exterior Selected by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best plays of the year, Antigone in New York concerns a homeless Puerto Rican woman who wants to steal the body of her lover from Potter's Field and bury it in a city park. She and her accomplices, two homeless Eastern European refugees, end up with the wrong body and a myriad of problems."Witty and acerbic." TIME Magazine"As comic as it is devastating, this dark, giddy play deri

      Antigone in New York
    • 1990

      Janusz Glowacki's highly theatrical and often hilarious works concern the immigrant experience of the Eastern European in America, the struggles of the individual in a repressive state, and the manipulations of political and social power. The girls' reform school of Cinders, the Lower East Side tenement of Hunting Cockroaches, and the Norwegian court littered with bodies in Fortinbras Gets Drunk serve as backdrops for Glowacki's tragicomic explorations of the play within the play of contemporary existence.

      Hunting Cockroaches and Other Plays