...Gitta Honegger Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Ein Sportstück, directed by Einar Schleef, 1998. Photo: Andreas Pohlmann Gitta Honegger Elfriede Jelinek How to Get the Nobel Prize without Really Trying In summer 2005, as I prepared to visit Elfriede...

... as a mediator – has made some introductory remarks to get the discussion rolling, but things have been pretty quiet, until… Copyright © Theater 1995 1995 ...

... by the villagers. ‘Not enough flair,’ he comments. Then he buys a mask after checking the price with his guide: ‘Is that what you would pay for it?’ Reassured, he asks his favourite question: ‘What else are you going to show me?’ It is getting dark and everyone is tired — the maestro, his Indian hosts...

.... The action of the do that is to hit the numbers or get €USA: Maybe she didn’t like the way play takes place in a restaurant lucky in a crap game. The ones that you was treating her. across the streetfrom West’s Funeral are working the only way they can MEMPHIS: I treat that woman like...

...: get here. It’s a good thing we picked Carl Gordon as them watermelons fresh. Doaker. DOAKER: What you doing up here? I LYMON: We was down in West Virginia. ning...

... shoes, and in quiet desperation and watermelon, he wasn’t gonna get much sense ancient two story brick house set back off a vengeful pride, thg stole, and lived in pursuit of out of him. Trying to hide the great big old small alley in a big city neighborhood. The thrown dream: 7’hat thcould br...

... you a brilliant future, which you no, that’s not it either. I just say: No one else already knew, you don’t need a God for that: did it. No idea, what. The King doesn’t look A future, which no longer is one, it is the to me as if he wanted to do anything at all. present. You’ll get the value...

... and a few distant suns r: Or everybody will just be kind of multigen- all getting farther and farther apart. dered. You’ll just have the ability, with genetic technology or whatever, that when you wake t: Or there won’t be as many people, but there up...

... things so States of America, the British One time he tole me, ”Son, there’s everybody can get somethmg good out Commonwealth including the Dominion of three things to make up a good.. of it. So I’m a storyteller. A storyteller. Canada, and all other countries...

.... stone. He scrapes out the plasticine. He looks into first old woman Hey—don’t push! the pan—a small lead-colored pool of liquid reflects his face and a white pin of light from the maksim You what? lampshade on the ceiling. He takes the pan and first old woman Get out of it. pours the lead into the bowl...

... They move over to the door. yahoo tries opening comes, and I’ll go around the other side and see the door, but it is locked. He tries shaking it open, ifwe can get in there. Don’t touch the door. but the door makes too much noise, so he stops...

... on, Street. cians are onstage, busy with their music stancis, hurry up and get your music out and getting chairs, lazily taking their seats. The VIOLINIST (to Valentin): Enough don’t talk so much or you won’t be violinist looks at his watch. At this momeni...

... and his Reagan and Carter How’d you get here? masks are ready to go. He tests a microphone he has Joe. set up. He lives near you? samuel has a Brooklyn accent. He says each of the following words...

... and recording, or Goodwill Games. I proposed Jim Jettison, a Hearst reporter: mid- by an information storage and retrieval Mayakovsky's Banya. The theater twenties, just out of school, young, system, without permission in writing agreed, and I set to work. After a brash, determined to get...

... up the river to pigeon and it on the other side of the yard. Sound Design by the mill towns that dot the Monongahela and return See it over there? Matthew Wiener with fresh, hard, gleaming steel. The dty flexes its BERTHA: Come on and get your...

... vivre (gets up with great dtfluulp) performed at the &hum Schauspiel- not even now We shouldn’t live so long haus. Germany, in January, 1984. Even though we were unhappy most of that we need glasses Claw Peymann directed the premiere, the time...

... you felt any changes in that audience? counter more than once, so that there would be accumulated I think they get better and better and better. They’re more adven- knowledge of each other. Therefore you could be one step ahead turesome, they scream less if they don’t like a play, they under...

... the girl when you leave and gargle with salt water when you Orderly Two: We've got to do get home. something . Isabella: I feel I'm in the way. He looks around at the others, who seem...

... free association. You pay your can say that I’m not, but I really do. (laughing) But no, a money, get on board, hold onto your hat, and take your good night is really the result of being with a great crowd chances, because this train doesn’t so much stop as light that‘s willing to go places...

... apartments are set up and rented out. One gets to the toilet via a long hallway. The room itself stands in contrast to what one imagines the other apartments might look like. It is exceptionally clean, conventionally petit-bourgeois, neat, and arranged with hominess, love, and warmth...