'Cat And Mouse' & 'Services'

Description

Two plays by contemporary dramatists Gregory Motton and Elfriede Jelinek Cat and Mouse (Sheep) by Gregory Motton: Gengis starts a price war with the shop next door and ends up running the country with his uncle and aunty. Covering the Ingratitude of the People, Life, Death, Housing and Education: Cat and Mouse (Sheep) is a satirical voyage through Great Britain. Cat and Mouse (Sheep) premiered at the Odeon Theatre Paris in 1995 "A libertarian piece of theatre, destructive, plebeian, leaving no trace after its passage except the strong weeds of its sarcasm." (L'Humanite) Services by Elfriede Jelinek; two married women deeply weary of the sterility of their sexual existences, arrange a secret liaison with two men code-named Moose and Bear who offer raw animal sex in a dingy motorway service station. Constructed along the lines of Cosi Fan Tutte, Services is a cruel and pornographic comedy premiered in Vienna in 1995 and selected as "Best Production of the Year" by Theater Heute.

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, the Georg Buchner Prize in 1998, the Mulheim Dramatists Prize in 2002 and 2004, the Franz Kafka Prize in 2004, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, also in 2004. Her work is multi-faceted and highly controversial, as is her political activism. Gregory Motton's plays include "A Message for the Broken Hearted", "The Terrible VOice of Satan", "Looking at You (revived) Again", "Lazy Brien", "Ambulance" and "Downfall", all published by Oberon.