Through the leaves and other plays
By: Franz Xaver Kroetz ; translated by Roger Downey.
Contributors: Downey, Roger.; Kroetz, Franz Xaver, 1946-; Kroetz, Franz Xaver, 1946-; Kroetz, Franz Xaver, 1946-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: TCG translations
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Kroetz, Franz Xaver, 1946-  -- Translations into English
Description: Like Sam Shepard - the American playwright whose career his most nearly resembles - Franz Xaver Kroetz is a controversial figure whose works have helped reshape world drama over the last two decades. His unsparing portraits of life in Germany's lower middle class redefine the notion of realism on the stage. The only Kroetz collection available in English, this volume includes: Through the Leaves, about a female butcher and her laborer lover; The Nest, about a worker who.

Inadvertently poisons a lake and, consequently, injures his infant son; and Mensch Meier, about a jittery, imaginative Munich assembly-line worker, his vague, housebound wife and their silently observant teenage son.
Table of contents: title: Through the leaves; title: Mench meier; title: The nest.