Tango
Tango Author: Sł awomir Mrożek
First Performance: 1965, Warsaw
Published: 1964
First English Translation: 1968
Genre: Pol. drama in 3 acts; Polish prose
Setting: Stomils' living room, Poland, 1960s
Cast: 4m, 3f
Arthur Stomil returns home from university to discover that his family is living a life of moral anarchy. Unimpressed by the arguments of his father Stomil and his mother Eleanor that this freedom to act on impulse has been won dear, Arthur determines to become a doctor and get married to his cousin Ala in the traditional manner. If his family will not behave properly, then he will force them to. But Arthur's plans founder: he discovers that the servant Eddie has seduced his mother, and Stomil refuses to shoot Eddie when ordered to do so. Ala, who prefers just to sleep with...
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