Note: Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied. Peter Handke's work is amongst the most strikingly original of all post-war European writing (Times Educational Supplement) Offending the Audience is 'a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre.' Self-Accusation, originally made for the Club Guy&Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club, is a sly and ironic attack on moral guilt. A piece based on the play by Peter Handke baring the same name. A piece based on the play by Peter Handke baring the same name.

Looking for books by Peter Handke? See all books authored by Peter Handke, including Nachmittag eines Schriftstellers, and Crossing the Sierra de Gredos: A Novel, and more on ThriftBooks.com. Peter Handke's work is amongst the most strikingly original of all post-war European writing (Times Educational Supplement)Offending the Self-Accusation is 'a cunning and ironic attack on bureaucratic moral guilt' (Observer); Kaspar is based on the true story of Kaspar Hauser, a sixteen year old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in. Peter Handke (German:; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright and translator. Life Early life. Handke and his mother (a Carinthian Slovene whose suicide in 1971 is the subject of Handke's A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, a reflection on her life) lived.

One of the most radical works of the 20th century, Peter Handke's Self-Accusation takes the audience on a journey that explores our need to confess and our delight in hearing about others' transgressions. In this play without characters, the actors confess to all sorts of sins, ranging from the monstrosity of dealing in slaves or committing genocide, to the triviality of failing to shake the lotion bottle before use. At times disturbing, funny and profound, this crescendo of wrongdoing suggests that if 'to err is human,' then to confess -to make a story out of our transgression- is the beginning of art.

Originally written for two speakers, Theatre Y reimagines this gleefully rebellious mea culpa as a conceptual art oratorio for an ensemble of nine, staged in a storefront window with the city of Chicago itself as its backdrop. By the end of the piece we have a group of speakers who are no longer actors, a collection of individuals who are no longer just spectators.

As Peter Handke confesses to the audience: 'You are the event.'

What do you want to confess?

Please join us for Theatre Y's imaginative production of Self-Accusation by Peter Handke.

SELF-ACCUSATION will be the third Theatre Y production offered to the public free of charge as part of the FREE THEATRE MOVEMENT! Opening night is Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. Press Nights are Saturday and Sunday March 23 and 24, and the play runs through April 28th. The regular performance schedule is Friday-Sunday at 7:30pm. Industry night is Monday, April 22nd at 7:30 p.m. For more information and to reserve your seat visit http://www.theatre-y.com/.

The Ensemble: Kris Tori, Adrian Garcia, Nadia Pillay, Pearl Ramsey, Zahrah Pillay, Howard Raik, Arlene Arnone Bibbs, Ishmael Klein, and Anthôny Battle. Co-directed by Melissa Lorraine and Héctor Álvarez, the production team includes Ben Kinsinger (Sound/Composition), Rachel Levy (Lights), Henry Wilkinson (Set), Rebecca Hinsdale (Costumes), Claire Alston (Dramaturgy), and Alanna Gerardi (Stage Management).

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Handke Plays: 'Offending the Audience', 'My Foot My Tutor', 'Self Accusation', 'Kaspar', ' Lake Constance', 'They are Dying Out' v. 1 (Paperback)

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About this Item: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 1997. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. Peter Handke's work is amongst the most strikingly original of all post-war European writing (Times Educational Supplement) Offending the Audience is 'a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre.' Self-Accusation is 'a cunning and ironic attack on bureaucratic moral guilt' (Observer); Kaspar is based on the true story of Kaspar Hauser, a sixteen year old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught to speak from scratch. Handke's play is a downright attack on the way language is used by a corrupt society to depersonalise the individual; My Foot My Tutor is a mime for two actors - 'Handke has here written an hour-long play without words that may at first look like a piece of audience-provocation but that finishes up as sheer theatrical poetry' (Guardian). In The Ride across Lake Constance, a group of characters (known only by the names of the actors who perform the parts) talk and play games together and skate over the thin ice that separates them from unspoken danger. 'Intensely theatrical.an author for whom playwriting seems akin to tightrope walking' (The Times).They Are Dying Out puts the pillars of the bourgeoisie under the microscope to reveal an alien race, suffocated by rationality, unable to cope with untamed subjective impulses and shows an 'uncanny knack for making the familiar seem strange' (Plays and Players). Seller Inventory # AAV9780413680907

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