Offending the Audience (2015)
Produced by
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Playwright: Peter Handke
Translator: Michael Roloff
Creator: Christian Lapointe
Venue
Run
August 6th, 2015 – August 15th, 2015
Synopsis
Christian Lapointe takes on the founding text of anti-play – the playful and destabilizing Offending the Audience by Peter Handke. Nearly fifty years after its creation, Lapointe reinvents the play’s celebratory radicalism. Taking the show’s title and the line “This is not a play” quite literally, he casts the audience as the only living character in the piece, placing the spectators face to face with themselves. They are both the subject and the object of this unusual performance, where theatrical representation is turned inside out. (summerworks.ca)
Creative Team
| Peter Handke | Playwright |
| Michael Roloff | Translator |
| Christian Lapointe | Conceived and Created by |
Production
| Pierre-Olivier Fréchet-Martin | Technical Director |
Staff
| Bryan Eaton | Venue Technician |
| Debbie Courchene | Venue Technician |
