Emigrants
By Slavomir Mrozek
ZZ: Why did you run away from there? What, it was not good there? You had women, an apartment with a view in the capital, you made good money, moved in high circles, and now what?
AA: One runs not to somewhere but from somewhere.
ZZ: This is what I am saying. You were better off there than here.
Polish playwright, Slavomir Mrozek, one of the best known writers in the theater of absurd in the 20th century, brings together AA, an intellectual, and ZZ, a simple provincial laborer. From their tragicomical dialog important questions emerge about the slave-man, incapable of loving or understanding a fellow man, a stranger.
This is a story of people who lost their lives, who emigrated to change their lives, but who are still plagued by problems from their past. Despite the complex and difficult topic, Mrozek succeeded in creating a comedy full of black humor and grotesque. We hope that the play will help the spectators if not identify with, at least understand and forgive the “other.”