Offending The Audience
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 31, 2008
Closed Feb 23, 2008
Opened Jan 31, 2008
Closed Feb 23, 2008
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At the top of Offending The Audience, a group of actors take the stage and announce that there will be no play. They are not characters. The stage does not represent another place. Time passes as it does in real life. There is no illusion. The audience is asked to abandon every expectation, to be the subject of the actors' gaze the way that they are the subject of ours. So what will happen on stage? Offending The Audience combines caustic humor with deeply meaningful notions about theatre, life and death.
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To put it bluntly: Offending the Audience, now getting a revival at the Flea Theatre, doesn't. Peter Handke's hour-long exercise undoubtedly did inspire shock and awe in 1966 when the 22-year-old unleashed the play on German patrons only somewhat alerted by the provocative title to what they might expect. But in the intervening 42 years, too many works have been lobbed from stages in which ticket buyers are harangued about the ossification of traditional theater. So now rather than offending the seat-fillers, the Handke polemic runs the risk of boring them into advanced catatonic states.
To be sure, there's some initial fun in watching the 21-member cast, made up of members from th[...]