7 Jan 1993Size: 203mm x 128mm£12.99
Through the Leaves and other plays
Paperback £12.99
Three plays translated from the German by Roger Downey.
Franz Xaver Kroetz is a controversial figure whose works have helped reshape world drama over the last two decades. His unsparing portraits of life in Germany's lower middle-class redefine the notion of realism on the stage.
This volume includes: Through the Leaves, about a female butcher and her labourer lover; The Nest, about a worker who inadvertently poisons a lake and, consequently, injures his infant son; and Mensch Meier, about a jittery, imaginative, Munich assembly-line worker, his vague housebound wife and their silently observant teenage son.
'The most fascinating of contemporary West German playwrights. Through the Leaves sticks like a splinter in the mind'
New York Times7 Jan 1993Size: 203mm x 128mm£12.99