AI in theatre. Witkacy case study

The paper presents results of a project involving the use of AI in the creative process in the theatre.As a case study the plays of the Polish polymath Stanisaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, aka Witkacy, were considered.The goals were to use AI tools: 1. to draft the author's vision of performances according to his precise original stage directions and to generate character designs and costumes, scenography, lighting and accessories; 2. to generate hypothetical scenes and moreover to reconstruct texts of lost plays.The quality of the content generated by AI was evaluated by a stylometric analysis confronting it with the original corpus.The project was complemented by a survey conducted among theatre artists to assess the potential usefulness of AI tools.