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Switzerland's Dramatists in the Shadow of Frisch and Dürrenmatt
Paul Buschenhofen's critical monograph presents the reader with a coherent study of the creative works of the Swiss dramatists of the post-war era. Especially the plays of those dramatists who are not widely recognized, those writers who wrote as it were in the «shadow» of Frisch and Dürrenmatt, are analysed and interpreted in the context of the historical development of the theatrical tradition, as well as in relation to their individual significance. In doing so, Buschenhofen has written an appreciation of a section of German literature which has hitherto been almost totally neglected, or viewed in comparative condescension.
Plays and Essays: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Six richly inventive pieces by the Swiss master of existentialist theater. Includes "Romulus the Great, 21 Points to the Physician," and "A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law.">
Switzerland
1995, the Swiss Alps. Patricia Highsmith, the queen of the thriller, now ageing and ailing, hides away in her study, surrounded by her collection of books and antique weaponry, finding solace in her seclusion, her cats and her cigarettes. A polished young man turns up, sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write one final instalment of her best-selling series featuring the master manipulator, Tom Ripley. But as day breaks over the mountains, it becomes clear that the charming stranger is set on a far more sinister mission. Joanna Murray-Smith's play Switzerland is a gripping psychological thriller, filled with razor-sharp dialogue. It was first performed at the Sydney Opera House in 2014. The play received its UK premiere at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, in 2018, before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End.
William Tell
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William Tell
Excerpt from William Tell: A Drama of the Origin of Swiss Democracy This drama presents at least one distinctive addition to the Tell literature, namely: the dramatic form in which it is cast; five acts, related intimately by the sequence of events portrayed, and the absence of the usual divisions into scenes. The play has been constructed without regard for the historical criticism that has greatly shorn the original legend of its fiction. It aims to depict not merely the Tell episode, but the movement of that epoch toward freedom and the unity of Switzerland. Therefore, I have introduced in the final act the death of the Austrian King and the Swiss victory at Morgarten, - which events took...
