Kaspar and Other Plays

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handkes first full-length drama hailed in Europe as the play of the decade and compared in importance to Waiting for GodotKaspar 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.In Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation 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.