Product Description: This volume contains some of the more controversial and personal works produced by Turrini, who has come to be recognized today as one of the leading Austrian dramatists. The plays, Shooting Rats, Infanticide, Death and the Devil, and The Siege of Vienna treat contemporary social conditions and problems in Austria: alienation from the consumer society, the loss of humanity, and the quest for redemption in a morally corrupt world...read more

Product Description: Turrini's theater works extend far beyond their Austrian origins in expressing the hopes, frustrations, and hypocrisies of life in the modern world.The plays contained in this volume -- A Crazy Day, Joseph and Mary, A Social Engagement, and The Slackers -- offer English-speaking readers a representative sampling of Turrini's work...read more