Word: mrozek
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...advertised, Slawomir Mrozek's "Drama from Gendarme Circles" (translated by Edmund Ordon and adapted by Mary Manning) is a satire on totalitarianism and an attack on imposed conformity. It begins when the last political prisoner in an unnamed nation signs his confession and reconciles himself to "the Infant and his uncle the Regent," which means that everybody in "the best state in the world" has attained a state of "perfect loyalty," with "not a hint of incipient disloyalty," as various characters tell one another with maddening frequency. By the time someone began screaming that "the people have become wildly, cruelly...
...Mrozek's few other jokes is one about a police sergeant whose wife sews military symbols on his "long johns" (as they are waggishly referred to) in order to console him for having to wear civilian clothes. The situation is not much improved by a reference to the sergeant's "undercover activities" (get it?) or by an elaborate bit showing the sergeant putting on his uniform with voluptuous delight...