“Sonne, los jetzt!”: Elfriede Jelinek’s Reversed Heliotropism for the End Times
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek’s new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee....
Read MorePosted by Toni Hildebrandt and Zainabu Jallo | 22nd Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Switzerland, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Science
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek’s new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2019 | Essay, Playwriting, United Kingdom
There is a simple dinner-party game that can be played at no ostensible cost. The host asks, “Who...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 4th May 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
On March 24, 1945, there was a party in Rechnitz, an Austrian town on the Hungarian border. The...
Read MorePosted by KaiChieh Tu | 8th Feb 2018 | Divine Comedy Festival 2017, Festivals, Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
Divine Comedy Festival 2017 situates itself awkwardly around the peaceful Christmas Market in the...
Read MorePosted by Jürgen Berger | 2nd Nov 2017 | Germany, Theatre and Politics
The programmes of the 2017/2018 season are still defined by the theme complex “Migrant Life in...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 28th Oct 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Translation, United States of America
Elfriede Jelinek’s Shadow. Eurydice Says is not much of a drama, if by that is meant a...
Read MorePosted by Alma Braškytė | 10th Aug 2017 | Directing, Lithuania, United States of America
Recorded by Alma Braškytė in June 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania Yana Ross happens to have her home in...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 26th Jul 2017 | Festivals, Netherlands
Grensgeval (Borderline). Based on Les Suppliants by Elfriede Jelinek. Directed by Guy Cassiers,...
Read MorePosted by Emily Goodling | 19th May 2017 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Politics
Since 2015, over one million refugees have entered Germany. As a political event, the so-called...
Read MorePosted by Kristof Van Baarle | 30th Dec 2016 | Belgium, Essay, Theatre and Politics
From the ‘crisis play’ to the ‘memorial play’ to the ‘Syria play,’ current affairs are doing well...
Read MorePosted by Wolfgang Höbel | 29th Oct 2016 | Austria, News, Playwriting
In the course of her life, Elfriede Jelinek, who recently turned seventy, has written over thirty...
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