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Darkly perverse, comic play from the Theatre of the Absurd. Welcome to the Theatre of the Absurd. Two international criminal masterminds hijack a locomotive engine and drive it at apocalyptic speeds into an oncoming passenger train. Will their high-speed adventure propel them into another dimension or are they heading for disaster? Duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, physicians and locomotive engineers wander in and out, kill one another, and carry on philosophical conversations at the same time. An avant-garde play by Witkiewicz, arguably Poland's most influential dramatist, never before seen on the English stage. This multi-sensory spectacle combines the drama and thrill of pulp fiction and early cinema with the sensuality and suspense of the tango.

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Company: Theatre of the Absurd