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The story is set in a fictional Polish manor house where the owner, , lives with his two daughters.

It is famously subtitled a "comedy with corpses" because characters frequently die or return from the dead without the expected tragic weight. w_malym_dworku_stanislaw_ignacy_witkiewicz_1969...

(In a Small Country House) is a classic 1921 drama by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) that serves as a grotesque parody of 19th-century realistic theater. The 1969 production typically refers to the Television Theater (Teatr Telewizji) adaptation directed by Helmut Kajzar , which brought Witkacy's absurdist "comedy with corpses" to a wider audience. Production Details (1969 Adaptation) The story is set in a fictional Polish

For more detailed production records and archival photos, you can explore the Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego or check for available digital broadcasts on the TVP VOD platform. The 1969 production typically refers to the Television

While it is one of Witkacy’s works closest to a realistic setting, it uses that setting specifically to dismantle the conventions of stage realism.

A year after his wife, Anastazja, died under mysterious circumstances, the daughters hold a spiritualist séance .