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a brilliant revival of a play of decay, terror and revulsion

  • Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
a brilliant revival of a play of decay, terror and revulsionDaniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company

Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President.

The Austrian is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, best known in the English-speaking world as a novelist.

As literary scholar Rita Felski puts it, Bernhard’s oeuvre...

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