Playing at:
Panorama Theater
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 746-2166
panoramaonview.org
panorama@panoramaonview.org
Presented by Emily Mast, “Offending The Audience” is an ‘anti-play’ that was written in 1966 by the Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke.
This 45-minute lecture about theater must, by necessity, take place in a theater while attempting to be as un-theatrical as possible. In this particular adaptation, seven children between the ages of six and twelve remove the audience from the artificiality of this artiface by introducing a real play into a play that, for all of its avant-garde seminality is, to a contemporary ear, far too self-conscious to be listened to. This fresh take on Handke by no means resembles a conventional children’s play. Rather, it is a conceptual gesture that is staged in a conventional theater.
“Offending the Audience” stars: Zane Amundsen, Amber Barbell, Mathew Davis, Bailey Garcia, Kaitlin Morgan, Gerald Orzikh & Talyan Wright
