Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42667 in Books
• Published on: 1973-08-23
• Original language: German
• Binding: Paperback
• 109 pages

Customer Reviews

comedy tragedy revenge equals justice ?
this play is a mixture of theatre styles and influences it is funny/ sad tragic/comic. do you as a reader/audience feel sorry for ill or does he deserve his fate?

Great play
This play is wonderful. When I first read it I thought bleuck, but as I had to analyse it I realised just how good it is!

One problem though.... this translation mistakes the german word for billion as million and million as thousand. It doesn't matter much to the play itself but if doing it for exams etc, it's important to know

An excellent play, both funny and menacing.
I studied this play on a Brecht course as an undergraduate and found it very refreshing: it is funny, sad, original and enjoyable. Claire is a fantastically strong character and Ill's destitute neighbours are predictably mercenary - buying items on credit in anticipation of Claire's wish being fulfilled. It explore's the power of consumerism and industry while also looking at the more standard themes of love and betrayal.