Play In German
“Graf Oederland,” a play by the contemporary Swiss novelist Max Frisch, will be acted by the staff and students of the German department of the University of Canterbury next week. The performance, the second in German in Christchurch since the Second World War, will be given at 8 p.m. in the Linwood High School hall on Monday. The last play presented in German, “The Fire-Raisers,” was also by Frisch and was performed about five years ago.
A highly philosophical author, Frisch is regarded as one of the two most important contemporary German novelists and dramatists. “Graf Oederland” describes how a state prosecutor, prosecuting a bank clerk who has killed someone with an axe, becomes sufficiently sympathetic with the ideas of the clerk to want to kill some one himself. The play’s main concern is the conflict between a person’s duty to live by his own rules and by the rules of society. There is a cast of 20, with the main character played by Barry Empson, a German honours student. The producer is Dr. B. F. M. Edwards and the assistant producer Lorraine Capill.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31091, 21 June 1966, Page 10
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