One of roughly 40 plays penned in the 1920s by Polish poet, playwright, novelist, painter, photographer, and philosopher Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (aka “Witkacy”), The Crazy Locomotive (originally Szalona lokomotywa) is set aboard the engine room of a train hurtling toward its destruction. An avant-garde gem that’s been described as Witkacy’s “indictment against futurism, the cinema, […]
