Sports Play
T063044962
An unflinching exploration of the close relationship between sports, nationalism and violence by the Nobel Prize winning author of
The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek, receives its English Language premiere on the eve of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Blurring the boundaries between a theatre event and a sports event, punctuated by live reporting of results from the Olympics and elsewhere, actors perform feats of linguistic gymnastics, their capacity to memorise and articulate non-naturalistic, punning and unpredictable lines stretched to the limits.
Archive :: production:T063044962, play:S0786021327, venue:V827
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