Botho Strauss: Three Plays: The Park, Seven Doors, Time and the Room

by Botho Strauss, Jeremy Sams (Translator)

Overview

Includes the plays The Park, Seven Doors and Time and the Room.

These three plays, first published in German in the 1980s, show Strauss developing an enigmatic, unsettling and uniquely theatrical style. Set in Hamburg, The Park is Strauss’s take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Seven Doors brings together a jilted husband, a wedding without guests and two monks with an intimate knowledge of hell. In Time and the Room, the room contrives to be the play’s main character.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786822192
Publisher:	Oberon Books
Publication date:	09/28/2017
Series:	Oberon Modern Playwrights
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Botho Strauss rose to fame in the 1970s through his work with Peter Stein at Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre and has since garnered numerous international awards and a reputation as Germany’s leading contemporary playwright.
Jeremy Sams’s translations include Les Parents Terribles, Indiscretions, The Miser and Mary Stuart (National Theatre), Figaro’s Wedding, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Wagner’s Ring Cycle (ENO), The Merry Widow (ROH), The Rehearsal and Becket. He has directed numerous plays at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway, and is a multi-award-winning composer, arranger and musical director.