Offending the Audience (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Handke
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Concurrent with the evening’s production
- Setting: Unspecified
- Principal Characters: Four Speakers
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Problem play, Speech drama
- Subjects: Reality, Criticism, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Performing arts
The Play
Before the speeches of Offending the Audience begin, Peter Handke’s script contains a section titled “Rules for the actors.” The four speakers are urged to seek out forms of popular art and other experiences which, presumably, would help to free them from the methods of delivery or acting inculcated by their previous training. The actors are told to strive for a sameness of sound, without individual inflection, as if in a crowd or ritual situation; they are also told to make up the partially inarticulate lines and deliver those lines very fast in...
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