L’Âne qui joue de la lyre (Donkey playing the lyre) – a legendary script by Jadwiga Kukułczanka, which enchanted Wojciech Jerzy Has and became his last unexecuted film project. Kukułczanka’s play is a ‘total work of art’ – a journey in time and space, full of surprising encounters, reaching back to the tradition of Socratic dialogues.
The structure of the play combines ludic elements in the spirit of commedia dell’arte with an erudite message; the spoken words are quotations or paraphrases from specific writings and literary works: the Bible, the Koran, the ancient epic Gilgamesh, literary classics. The result is a philosophical morality play, a spectacular metaphor of human destiny.
Jadwiga Kukułczanka’s script and memoirs are accompanied by essays by Krystyna Czerni and Tadeusz Lubelski explaining the phenomenon of this unexecuted project.
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