Solzhenltsyn's "Candle in the Wind" is his second play. It was accepted for the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow but hardly surprisingly the production was cancelled by higher authority. This is a pity, not so much for artistic reasons as for technical reasons, for if a production had matured Solzhenitsyn would have no doubt learnt to have presented his ideas with more dramatic artifice. Even if "Candle in the Wind" is not a good play, it is certainly an interesting one, and this production (translated from Russian into Polish by L. Alexandrovitch and directed, somewhat sentimentally, by Leopold Kielanowski) gives a very good idea of it. The theme is a characteristic one, that the scientist must be absolutely sure that his work will be of benefit to humanity before he sets it into operation. Philip, the scientist of the play, has invented a technique of biocybernetics capable of the "nervous stabilisation " of neurotic characters, and the process is carried out for the first time