Bambiland

Elfriede Jelinek · 2003 CE · Play · German · Contemporary

A single unbroken text of voices, pulled from television coverage, advertising and tragedy, answers the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is modeled on Aeschylus's The Persians, the first play to stage a war from the losers' side, and premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna that year.

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• modeled on ↑ The Persians
  Aeschylus · 472 BCE · Play

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