Gabriela Zapolska (1857â1921) was one of the foremost modernist Polish playwrights. Zapolska's Women features three of her performance texts that focus on the economic and social pressures faced by women in partitioned Poland at the end of the nineteenth century. In addition to the plays, Zapolska's Women provides a detailed biography of Zapolska, relating her life story to the themes of each play; an analysis of her significance within Polish and European literary and theatrical traditions; and background on the social and historical conditions within Poland during the time the plays were written and originally performed. This informative collection of groundbreaking plays will introduce an English-speaking audience to Zapolska's important work.
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Young and old Jewish men and women, girls dressed in white, children
ACT 1
(The setting represents a very expensively furnished drawing room. As the curtain rises, a card table is revealed, on which lighted candles, cards and money are set out. Champagne bottles also stand on this table, as well as empty bottles on other tables. Two CHANTEUSES18are on stage. One is sitting at the pianoforte playing âAdèle, tâes belleâ19and the other is singing out of key. On a sofa on the RH side lounge MAURYCY SILBERCWEIG, BERNARD KALHORN. By the table KOLUMNA WIEDE
SKI sits shuffling and arranging cards)
SCENE 1
(Maurycy, Chanteuses, Wiede
ski, Bernard)
MAURYCY
Louder! Sing louder if you please!
CHANTEUSE 1
My throatâs gone dry â I cannot sing.
MAURYCY
Then wet it!
CHANTEUSE 1
All bottles are empty!
MAURYCY
Ring, Wiede
ski! Let more champagne20 be brought!
(Wiede
ski rings)
BERNARD
Remarkable! Bottomless well, is it, auntieâs cellar?
MAURYCY
So it appears.
CHANTEUSE 1
Have you been down to the cellar yet, Moritz?21
MAURYCY
No â Wiede
ski has made the descent in my stead.
CHANTEUSE 1
There must be heaps of bottles.
(Wiede
ski doesnât answer â occupied with the cards)
Well, whatâs the matter, Kolumna â gone deaf? Wonât answer to ladies?
WIEDE
SKI
Donât disturb me â Iâm practicing Kabbalah.22
MAURYCY
Kabbalah â I doubt it! Youâre devising a new majsterstĂźck,23 to flourish when you sit down to play, with me.
WIEDE
SKI
Most decidedly not a majsterstĂźck, only a chef dâoeuvre.24 Youâve left the counting house now and arenât crouching behind safety bars25 any longer, like some wild ...
