| FERDYDURKE is
based on Gombrowicz’s first novel, a satirical work and cult classic
since it was first published in 1937, and described as “one of the
forgotten treasures of 20th century literature”. “Ferdydurke”
is a Polish nonsense word for “fiddle-faddle”, and as Allen
Kuharski puts it, the play celebrates “the nasty inner child”
whose sheer lack of manners allows an assault on personal and political
convention.
In FERDYDURKE, a repressed 30-year-old writer
is sent back as an adult to re-experience his school days, his first crush
on another boy, and other episodes from his past. The crazy schoolboy
antics disguise a deeper attack on bourgeois convention.
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