Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf

Artistic Director of Warsaw's Teatr Studio, Natalia Korczakowska is recognized as one of the most exciting theater artists emerging from Eastern Europe. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (popularly known as Witkacy) was a Polish playwright, painter, novelist, philosopher and avant-gardist. In WITKACY | Two-Headed Calf, a company of Polish and CalArts artists explore Witkacy's work against the endless and wild California nature. The plot unfolds through the journey of a neurotic boy and his family from New Guinea through Sydney to the desert.

Witkacy believed that nature can be a source of metaphysical experience that gives us a chance to protect our individuality from the soulless social machine of Western civilization. WITKACY | Two-Headed Calf is a journey from Poland to the California desert – and also a journey into the depths of oneself.