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With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. It explores contemporary society’s obsession with fitness and body culture bringing into sharp focus our need to belong to a group, a team or a nation. Sport is seen as a form of war in peacetime.

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Sports Play

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    A Paperback by Penny Black, Elfriede Jelinek

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2012
      ISBN13: 9781849434027, 978-1849434027
      ISBN10: 1849434026

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. It explores contemporary society’s obsession with fitness and body culture bringing into sharp focus our need to belong to a group, a team or a nation. Sport is seen as a form of war in peacetime.

      Trade Review
      Bristling with ideas and fierce feeling. a text and production with much to admire, but that remains cool and clever * Guardian *

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