The Merchant's Contracts

Elfriede Jelinek · 2009 CE · Play · German · Contemporary

A self-styled business comedy that dwells on Austrian financial scandals and the crash of 2008, in speech that runs through the voices of the people affected. Ordinary savers, bankers and officials all talk without any one position settling. Premiered in Cologne and Hamburg in 2009.

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