{"id":253466,"date":"2007-07-30T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/07\/30\/everything-thomas-bernhard-wrote-sounds-interesting\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:58","slug":"everything-thomas-bernhard-wrote-sounds-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/07\/30\/everything-thomas-bernhard-wrote-sounds-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Thomas Bernhard Wrote Sounds Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad directors aren&#8217;t always up to the task. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/intodaysfeuilletons\/1462.html\">signandsight.com<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thomas Bernhard wrote his first full-length play &#8220;Ein Fest f\u00fcr Boris&#8221; ( A party for Boris) in 1966 for the Salzburg Festival, however the then president considered the grotesque drama about legless cripples &#8220;too dreary&#8221;: &#8220;We must take the nerves of our more sensitive guests into consideration.&#8221; Consequently the play was never performed there. Ulrich Weinzierl finds it fitting that it is opening the festival \u2013 which has proven capable of &#8220;swallowing much heavier fare&#8221; &#8211; this year, but is not entirely convinced of the approach of the young Berlin director Christiane Pohle. &#8220;In an attempt to do everything differently, she does a lot of damage. Pohle halves the number of cripples; the six of them loll about in lounge chairs, a combo plays in the background. The scene in which &#8216;Good&#8217; gives the amputated Boris riding boots is eliminated, not replaced. And Boris doesn&#8217;t drum himself into death; he practices weebles until he dies, with Johannes&#8217; help. It&#8217;s no wonder that &#8216;Good&#8217; doesn&#8217;t &#8216;break out in horrible laughter&#8217; \u2013 as Bernhard wanted it \u2013 but in fact is fighting back tears. And the sobbing finale is a massive belittlement, borderline kitsch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad directors aren&#8217;t always up to the task. Via signandsight.com: Thomas Bernhard wrote his first full-length play &#8220;Ein Fest f\u00fcr Boris&#8221; ( A party for Boris) in 1966 for the Salzburg Festival, however the then president considered the grotesque drama about legless cripples &#8220;too dreary&#8221;: &#8220;We must take the nerves of our more sensitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,2436,2426],"class_list":["post-253466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-signandsight","tag-thomas-bernhard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363996,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253466\/revisions\/363996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}