Push Up (NHB Modern Plays)
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A savage satire on the rapacious nature of office lives and lusts - the British debut from a writer whose work has been seen in prestigious theatres all over Germany.
Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So, they push for it.
This version premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2002.
'an attack on corporate life enacted in a sequence of cunning dialogues... formally elegant and crisply expressed' - Observer
'an arresting piece... makes one hope that the Royal Court will import more of Schimmelpfennig's work' - Independent
Roland Schimmelpfennig
Award-winning playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most exciting voices in European drama. He has worked as a journalist, translator and dramaturg, and his plays have been successfully produced in over forty countries. The Golden Dragon was the German critics’ Play of the Year in 2010 and is published by Oberon Books. Oberon also publishes Schimmelpfennig’s Arabian Night and The Woman Before, while his other works include Push Up 1 – 3, The Child Who Could Fly, Here I Am and Winter Solstice.
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