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By Werner Schwab,Diana Damian Martin,Meredith Oakes

ISBN-10: 1783191457

ISBN-13: 9781783191451

Foreword through Diana Damian Martin

Werner Schwab’s ultimate paintings, often referred to as a theatre-extinction comedy, is a brutal, irreverent and bizarrely comical piece approximately what occurs whilst an rising degree creation is sabotaged by way of outsiders. Following a dispute with the forged, the director replaces all of the actors with pensioners from a close-by domestic for the aged.
At first compliant and well mannered, the ‘forgotten and dispossessed’ steadily begin to query the director’s authority, resulting in a ‘coup d’état’ the place the theatre’s cleansing woman is chosen because the group’s chief. now not everyone survives the recent order.


Marking 20 years because the playwright’s dying, this is often the 1st English-language book of a forgotten masterpiece. Werner Schwab was once purely thirty-five years previous whilst he was once came upon useless in his room following a brand new Year’s Eve ingesting spree in 1994. He used to be, on the time, the undisputed famous person of Germanspeaking theatre who without problems rose to popularity for his detailed expertise with language and his darkly funny, confrontational narratives. in just 4 years, he accomplished fifteen performs with useless eventually, eventually not more Air (Endlich tot, endlich keine luft mehr) being his last.

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