- priest Stage play Polish puppet master and director staged a play "Czy Pan istnieje, Mr Johnes?", premiered in the on 5 December 2014, The grotesque story was cast into a grotesque show, enhanced by multimedia effects, weird masks and costumes of the actors, lights, and music. Actor Michał Jarmoszuk rendered the metamorphoses of the protagonist well, with multiple personalities, multigenderness, and even the multi-species body of Mr. Jones. Publication history Lem's screenplay was first published in 1968 in film magazine and included into Lem's 1971 short story collection . The original radio play was published in the 2000 collection of Lem's scenarios. Both the screenplay and film plot were translated several times into Russian. The first, abridged, translation of the play (titled "Существуете ли вы, мистер Джонс?") was in 1957, the first full one was in 1958. The plot was translated under several titles: "Слоеный пирог" ["Layered Cake"] (1972, 1979), "Мозаика" ["Mosaic"] (1973), "Бутерброд" ["Sandwich"] (1973) See also Paradox of the heap, which involves gradually changing one thing until it turns into a different thing Ship of Theseus, a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object References Films directed by Andrzej Wajda Works by Stanisław Lem Polish science fiction comedy films 1968 films 1960s Polish-language films 1960s science fiction comedy films Organ transplantation in fiction BBC television dramas Films based on works by Stanisław Lem Prosthetics in fiction Polish radio dramas 1955 radio dramas 1968 comedy films