Tales from the Vienna Woods

Tales from the Vienna Woods (Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald)

    Author: Ödön von Horváth

    First Performance: 1931, Berlin

    Published: 1931

    First English Translation: 1977

    Genre: Tragicom. in 3 acts; German prose and songs

    Setting: Vienna, Vienna Woods, and the Wachau, c.1930

    Cast: 11m, 11f

Alfred, an impoverished layabout, gambler, and minor aristocrat, has a relationship with 49-year-old Valerie, who owns a newsagent's and tobacconist's in Vienna. In the same street, the butcher Oskar becomes engaged to Marianne, the daughter of the toyshop owner. Alfred has a row with Valerie, breaks with her, and meets Marianne for the first time. Oskar and Marianne celebrate their engagement with a picnic, to which Alfred and Valerie are invited. Valerie begins a relationship with an...

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