Further details at:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/german/sauschlachten.html
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The University of Sheffield
Department of Germanic Studies
Germanic Studies Drama Group proudly presents:
SAUSCHLACHTEN
by Peter Turrini
Performance dates Sheffield
Thurs 1st March, Fri 2nd March, Sat 3rd March 2001 7.30 pm
Drama Workshop, Shearwood Road, Sheffield
Performance dates Bristol
Tuesday 20 March 2001, 7.30 pm
Prices
General public £4.00, students and concessions £3.50, school
pupils £3.00
Peter Turrini, born in Sankt Margarethen in Lavanttal in 1944, is one
of Austria’s most controversial and hard-hitting young playwrights.
Since 1971 he has lived in Vienna as a full-time writer and
playwright. His main works include Rozznjogd (1967),
Sauschlachten (1971), Kindsmord (1972), Die Minderleister (1984).
‘The events portrayed in Sauschlachten are the result of physical
and mental brutality, taken to their most logical and appalling
conclusions. Naturally, we Austrians did not invent brutality, it is
merely that we are able to portray it in a highly entertaining fashion.
It is not without reason that we are known as a nice cosy little
nation’
- Turrini
Sauschlachten is a parable. It tells the story of an outsider, a story
which is followed through to its most grotesque, yet logical
conclusion. Set on a pig farm in the Austrian backwoods,
Sauschlachten tells the story of Valentin, aka Volte, the younger
son of the pig farmers. Volte does not speak: his mode of
expression is through grunts. In a series of absurd, ludicrous and
brutal scenarios his parents and older brother Franz try first to
cajole him and then to coerce him into speaking, but all to no avail.
Finally the dignitaries of the village – the teacher, the priest, the
doctor and the lawyer – arrive at the farmhouse to help the family
resolve their dilemma, which they do, but in the most unexpected
fashion…
Director: Mel Karpinski
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