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MICHAEL ROLOFF (1937 - )
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Art Of Asking, The
Synopsis:
postscript by Gitta Honegger
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Balzac's Godot
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Original Playwright - Honore de Balzac (Le Faiseur)
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Unproduced 1995
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BLT; or, Last Time is the Best Time, The
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Calling For Help
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Contained in: "The Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1976 -
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Darlings and Monster's Play, The
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Distress Calls
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Farmyard
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Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz
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Urizen Books, -
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Fernando Krapp Wrote Me this Letter
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Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst
1st Produced:
Seattle 1996
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Johns Hopkins Press, -
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Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other, The
Synopsis:
postscript by Gitta Honegger
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Yale University Press, -
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It Won't Grow Back
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LA 1988
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Wages of Anguish Press, -
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Kaspar
Synopsis:
true story of the mysterious Kaspar Hauser, an adolescent foundling who appeared to have no language
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
1st Produced:
Almost Free Theatre, London 1973
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Methuen Drama, London, 1968 -
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Man A Dictionary, A
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Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz
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Urizen Books, -
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Men's Business
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Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz
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Urizen Books, -
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Michi's Blood
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Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz
1st Produced:
Taller LatinAmericano/ Creation Productions, NY 1982
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Urizen Books, -
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My Foot My Tutor
Synopsis:
starkly simple and yet ultimately frustrating world of an apparently autonomous theatre pantomime
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
1st Produced:
Open Space Theatre, London 1971
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Contained in: "Peter Handke Plays One" published by Methuen, 1968 -
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My Liver Is Sick
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Original Playwright - Werner Schwab
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Ariadne Press, -
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Offending The Audience
Synopsis:
a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Palombe Bleu
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1st Produced:
LA 1988
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Wages of Anguish Press, -
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People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless
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Original Playwright - Werner Schwab
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Contained in: "Seven Contemporary Austrian Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1995 -
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Prophecy
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Contained in: "The Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1976 -
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Quodlibet
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Unproduced -
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Contained in: "The Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1976 -
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Radio Play
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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recorded New York 1983
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Farrar StrAus, New York, -
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Ride Across Lake Constance, The
Synopsis:
declares war on the whole notion of a semiotic scheme or system of categorisation
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
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Methuen, London, 1973 -
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Schizzohawk
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LA 1988
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Wages of Anguish Press, -
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Screams for Help
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
1st Produced:
New York 1976
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Farrar StrAus, New York, -
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Self-AccUSAtion
Synopsis:
a cunning and ironic attack on bureaucratic moral guilt
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
1st Produced:
Almost Free Theatre, London 1973
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Contained in "Kaspar and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1969 -
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System JC UC
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1st Produced:
LA 1988
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Wages of Anguish Press, -
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They Are Dying Out
Synopsis:
portrayal of a capitalist big business man, it is sometimes taken to reveal retrospectively the social impetus in all of Handke;s writing
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke; in collaboration with Karl Weber
1st Produced:
National Theatre, London 1976
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Methuen, London, 1975 -
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Walk About The Villages
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Original Playwright - Peter Handke
1st Produced:
Beyond Baroque, Venice CA 1989
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Ariadne Press, 1995 -
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Wolves of Wyoming, The
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1st Produced:
LA 1988
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Wages of Anguish Press, -
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