lks downthe wall perpendicular to the audience, pauses to take his hat and looks up as, out of the bucket, his twin assistant, Leon, appears - wet and dripping. Having struggled out of the smallbucket, he picks it up. There is no trace of where he has comefrom. Maria emerges from the packing case of books. Charles,Emil and Agatha emerge from behind the bookcases. Mother,swathed in cloth, shuffles forward on her knees with abook covered in a shawl. At a signal, they all produce books in their hands and look at Joseph.In these instances the style certainly fits the literal definition of the notion of absurdity. Asdefined in the forth edition of the Oxford Dictionary Absurd is not in accordance with commonsense, very unsuitable, ridicules, foolish. When used in the description of theatrical work the termabsurdism generally carries a more weighted meaning.In much of the literature of the Theatre of The Absurd the style that has come to be to someextent common to the genre is used to comment of a lack of meaning. For this purpose action is attimes portrayed as outside the generally accepted realm of the possible so as to illustrate itsmeaninglessness. Characters tasks are fragmented or committed in repetition so as to comment ontheir innate lack of purpose or effect. Scenes are played in impossible settings so as to illuminate thefeeling of man/woman existing in a void with no purpose or ability to direct their course. None ofthese themes is in keeping with the writings of Bruno Schulz. Neither are they the meaning thatmotivate this theatrical work.The issue of the devaluation of the individual is also explored here to great effect. It isperhaps a nod to the tradition of the renowned polish dramatist - director Tadeusz Kantor. In hisTheatre of Death he depicted the hopeless state of the individual by substituting an inanimate objectfor a person. A puppet of sorts is used in conjunction with live actors who carry out a rituali...
