A cosmic session of hypnosis

Mateusz Chaberski reviews Cosmos based on Witold Gombrowicz’s novel, directed by Krzysztof Garbaczewski (Stary Theatre in Krakow, premiere: 19.11.2016). He forwards the thesis that the play recalls a hypnosis session. He ponders the use of Gombrowicz’s repetitive language, which serves to express the characters’ existential anxieties in the novel as they search for meaning in the surrounding world. Taking Witold played by Jaśmina Polak as an example, he states that Garbaczewski "attempts to divorce the language from the character’s psychology, focusing our attention on its melody and rhythm"