Criticism > Drama Criticism > Handke, Peter - Sarah Kaufman (review date 9 October 1998)
Handke, Peter - Sarah Kaufman (review date 9 October 1998)
Sarah Kaufman (review date 9 October 1998)
SOURCE: Kaufman, Sarah. “The Truth about Lake Constance.” Washington Post (9 October 1998): N41.
[In the following review, Kaufman discusses theatrical stagings in the 1930s, as well as tie-ins to German movie stars whom director John Spitzer uses for his adaption of Handke's The Ride across Lake Constance, performed by the Fradulent Production.]
The tiny, 45-seat theater at D.C. Arts Center is currently home to some Very Big Ideas.
The Ride across Lake Constance is FraudProd's fourth production by Austrian experimentalist Peter Handke, whom director John Spitzer calls the most important playwright of the late 20th century—despite the fact that he is little known on this side of the Atlantic. What the rest of the country hasn't yet discovered, says Spitzer, is Handke's take on reality.
Handke deals with that fundamental postmodern concept of multiple...
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