The value of Staniewski's plays is outlined by their manner of shaping form, which is in accordance to our times and which allows a full appreciation of the play in spite of the doubts that all contemporary art has had about it for the past half a century. It is hard to create high art now a days. Zbigniew Taranienko writes about Włodzimierz Staniewski's plays in Teatr.

Most of the time, when you say Gardzienice, you have bundled up in one word the entire phenomena of creativity, both artistic and theatrical of the artists from the little village near Lublin, under the tutelage of Włodzimierz Staniewski. However, given that it was theater, and not the particular place that was at the center of interest for these artists, it is actually more appropriate to speak of Staniewski's theater. That one can sense the unity of the six (or even seven) plays that have been made to this point is a result of their individual form which was given them by the director, although the character of the form was changed over time. There is nothing strange about this: in art, form always sets a trap. Even if the artist goes against accepted forms, it is form - the essence of action - that expresses his goal. Identify with it and digest it Staniewski's theater, for a good twenty yars now, is considered one of the most important experimental and avante-gard theaters i