Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "e;the play of the decade"e; and compared in importance to Waiting for GodotKaspar is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and alogical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "e;normally"e; and eventually becomes creative--"e;doing his own thing"e; with words; for this he is destroyed.In Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation, one-character "e;speak-ins,"e; Handke further explores the relationship between public performance and personal identity, forcing us to reconsider our sense of who we are and what we know.
