Pour cette énième journée du Festival international du théâtre à Béjaïa, la compagnie autrichienne, Just a Must, a donné la réplique avec une représentation théâtrale intitulée « Sports Play », à la grande salle de la maison de la culture Taous-Amrouche....

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Le producteur et la metteur en scène évoquent, dans cet entretien, le spectacle Sports Play qui sera présenté à Béjaïa et à Alger, leur intérêt pour le travail de l’auteure Elfriede Jelinek qui a reçu le prix Nobel en 2004, ainsi que leur compagnie Just a Must créée en 2009....

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Elfriede Jelinek's postmodern piece Sports Play hits London just in time to comment on the Olympics and the sporting world, albeit in a fragmentary and peculiar fashion. It's great to see this oft-neglected Austrian writer's work in the UK, and it stands as another great example that there's much theatre in the wider world that we would do well to see more of. At Chelsea Theatre....

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It's an unflinching, "post-dramatic" piece bristling with ideas....

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Sports Play: Vanda Butkovic - The director on text as musical score, hammering out logic and Andy Murray's mother....

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The sensation of watching the thing is in fact fairly strange, since the production has managed to pull off that mainland European, postdramatic, post-Brechtian aesthetic so well, despite many of the actors being British. All of which still feels strangely alien to describe as a success in British theatrical terms. And yet, it is. This is an acutely intelligent rendering of an important bit of literature....

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Elfriede Jelinek, the Nobel prize-winning Austrian playwright, novelist and poet, is renowned for politically charged, challenging works as much as for an unconventional dramatic writing style. Her plays are seldom performed in Britain, but the English language premiere of Sports Play, a timely examination of the darker side of competitive games, took place this month. In a rare interview, Jelinek spoke to the playwright Simon Stephens...

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