Alpine dread and decadence: meet Elfriede Jelinek.(trends & events)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, January, 2005 by Honegger, Gitta
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AUSTRIA: Imagine Suzan-Lori Parks and Mac Wellman in a Teutonic nightmare of Don Juan's hell, where they are writing their plays under torture from Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Like Sisyphus, they push their weighty scripts to the top of the Alps, where Arnold Schwarzenegger tears them to shreds and the Marx Brothers pick up the pieces--which they perform as they run up and down the mountain impersonating the Marquis de Sade, Julie Andrews and Martha Stewart, all under the post-performative scrutiny of Judith Butler.
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