The Hunger Artist Departs

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The Hunger Artist Departs is a Polish play by Tadeusz Rozewicz

"The Hunger Artist Departs" refers to the title of a two-part play by Tadeusz Różewicz, a Polish writer, which was published alongside another play by him, Mariage Blanc. Różewicz's play is

The original text

Inspired by Franz Kafka's short story, "A Hunger Artist," 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 in the volume Mariage Blanc and Hunger Artist Departs: Two Plays by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd in 2000.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

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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