Kaspar and Other Plays

Kaspar and Other Plays

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<p><b>Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to <i>Waiting for Godot</i></b></p><p><i>Kaspar </i>is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and alogical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "normally" and eventually becomes creative--"doing his own thing" with words; for this he is destroyed.</p><p>In <i>Offending the Audience</i> and <i>Self-Accusation</i>, one-character "speak-ins," Handke further explores the relationship between public performance and personal identity, forcing us to reconsider our sense of who we are and what we know.</p>