The Hunger Artist Departs
The Hunger Artist Departs is a Polish play by Tadeusz Rozewicz.
Original title: Odejście głodomora. Author's name also found as Tadeusz Różewicz
Contents
The original text
Inspired by Franz Kafka's short story, "Ein Hungerkünstler" ("A Hunger Artist", 1922), it is a play about a professional performer who starves himself as an art form but eventually finds himself isolated as public interest wanes.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English by Adam Czerniawski and published - with Mariage Blanc - in the volume Mariage Blanc and Hunger Artist Departs: Two Plays by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd in 1983.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Tadeusz Rozewicz. 1983. Mariage Blanc and Hunger Artist Departs: Two Plays by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd.
https://gps.psi-web.org/article/view/127
A photocopy of the published text found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022. Now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (See Antoinette Kellerman Collection (KC).)
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