Performed: Spring 2008
Director: Simona Giurgea
Written by playwright and novelist Witold Gombrowicz, The Marriage (1948) is structured as the dream of a Polish soldier stationed in France during the Second World War. The soldier, Henry, dreams about going home, where the war has transformed all he once cherished into a nightmare. Struggling to adapt to the violence that surrounds him, Henry ascends to incredible power through his dream but looses his soul along the way. “What does it matter that I’m healthy when my actions are sick?,” he asks himself. Through Henry’s dream, The Marriageaddresses isolation and communion, power and fear, force and the loss of dignity–all through a plot centered on family, home, and love.