and contact must be reestablished. By means of a forced calm, a dedicated attention to trivia, and a patronizing attitude toward other people, they organize the day's activity... The key to the piece is the husband's matter-of-fact account, as he watches at the window, or two children tormenting and then destroying a kitten... The children quite coldly mutilate and murder the animal and the husband blandly but not indifferently reports the event to his wife who isn't listening. In the third play two men facing in opposite directions have a conversation of sorts. Constantly demanding attention of each other, they deliver up monologues of self-revelation which reveal next to nothing and on top of it are not being listened to. Through it all an injured dog suffers an elaborate death agony at the feet of one of the men, whose only response is to intersperse his fatuous self-revelations with bulletins on the progress of the dog's demise." In 1972, Mavis Taylor directed a production of Różewicz's The Old Woman Broods. The piece was partially funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and was performed at the College of White Plains, Hudson River Museum, and Community Action Program in Mamaroneck in addition to La MaMa's theatre in the East Village, Manhattan. Różewicz has been regarded as "one of the most versatile and creative continuators of the Polish and international avant-garde". He was a member of the Polish Writers' Union and was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1987, he received the Golden Wreath at the Struga Poetry Evenings festival in Struga, Macedonia. In 2000, Różewicz received Poland's top literary prize, the Nike Award, for his book Matka odchodzi (Mother Is Leaving). Różewicz died in Wrocław from natural causes on 24 April 2014 from. He was 92. Awards and decorations 1948 – Army Medal for War 1939-45 1955 – Gold Cross of Merit 1955 – State Prize, 2nd class 1966 – State Prize, 1st class 1974 – Home Army Cross 1974 – Polish Army Medal 1977 – Order of the Banner of Work, 2nd class; for his entire literary work 1981 – Operation Tempest medal 1982 – Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1987 – Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath 1991 – Honorary degree from the University of Wroclaw 1996 – Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1997 – Golden Ball award 1997