Assassiner le poète, tuer le théâtre ? Enfin mort enfin plus de souffle de Werner Schwab

Werner Schwab’s play adresses the question of the playwright’s role and place in a direct and disquieting manner by showing him being killled. The playwright is treated as both an unusual character and a dramatic type, as a representative of a theatrical aesthetic and as a social figure. The play allows for a reflexivity that is explicit, but also indirect, since it confronts the character with the actual playwright; it also holds up a deforming mirror that suggests a political interpretation.