Heldenplatz - (Oberon Modern Plays) by Thomas Bernhard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A well known, controversial play. Opened at the Arcola Theatre in February 2010.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Highly controversial in Austria, this play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. Heldenplatz is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Bernhard's dialogue already evokes so stirringly and with such cliche free precision what it feels like to live in the shadow of the Holocaust" --<i>Robert Shore - The Metro</i> <p/>"It is as much an absurdist comedy as a piece of toxic rhetoric - this is an important European play that pins down a particularly fearful moment in Austrian history with ferocious elan." --<i>Michael Billington, The Guardian</i> <p/>"What is initially strange continues to be strange, but the sheer strangeness becomes mesmerising, and then marvellous... Deftly translated by Meredith Oakes and Andres Tierney" --<i>Jeremy Kingston, The Times</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Meredith Oakes, an Australian playwright who has lived in London since 1970. She has written plays, adaptations, translations, opera texts and poems. She taught play-writing at Royal Holloway College and for the Arvon Foundation, and wrote music criticism for <i>The Independent</i> in London and <i>The Daily Telegraph</i> in Sydney, and is a regular contributor to magazines including <i>The Listener</i>.
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