Sports Play

by Elfriede Jelinek

Penny Black (Translator)

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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.
  • ISBN10 1849434026
  • ISBN13 9781849434027
  • Publish Date 1 July 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 160
  • Language English