insulting the audience
written by
Peter Handke
28 August 2005. An unrehearsed performance of Handke's first theatretext, to celebrate his 22,885th day on the planet.
"YOU ARE WELCOME / THIS PIECE IS A PROLOGUE / YOU WILL HEAR NOTHING YOU HAVE NOT HEARD HERE BEFORE / YOU WILL SEE NOTHING YOU HAVE NOT SEEN HERE BEFORE / YOU WILL SEE NOTHING OF WHAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS SEEN HERE / YOU WILL HEAR NOTHING OF WHAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS HEARD HERE / YOU WILL HEAR WHAT YOU USUALLY SEE / YOU WILL HEAR WHAT YOU USUALLY DON'T SEE / YOU WILL SEE NO SPECTACLE / YOUR CURIOSITY WILL NOT BE SATISFIED / YOU WILL SEE NO PLAY"
A HAPPENING. WITH Teena Antia / Rina Barreto / Ratnabali Bhattacharjee / Neil Bhoopalam / Imogen Butler-Cole / Mukul Chadda / Catherine Chakravarty / Radhika da Cunha / Rohit Gupta / Faezeh Jalali / Kurush Jal Khodaiji / Kartik Krishnan / Kalyani Kulkarni / Siddharth Kumar / Rohit Malkani / Vera Mascarenhas Malkani / Vivek Mashru / Gulnar Mistry / Srimoyee Mitra / Farah Muncherjee / Chaiti Narula / Mandi Padamsee / Shanaya Rafaat / Ayesha Raza / Sunil Sadarangani / Ashita Sawhney / Siraj-Ayesha Sayani / Sameer Sheikh / Devarun Singh / Vikramjeet Sinha / Shruti Sridharan / Vivek Tandon / Chaitali Trivedi
BALLOON-ED & 1960'S-ED BY The Above, Variously / & MADE VISIBLE & IN-VISIBLE BY Arghya Lahiri / & EN-SOUNDED & MUSIC-ED BY Yael Crishna / & CONTROLLED BY Ananya Rane / & PRODUCED BY Nadir Khan / & WORKSHOPPED BY Rehaan Engineer
"O YOU CANCER VICTIMS, O YOU HEMORRHOID SUFFERERS, O YOU MULTIPLE SCLEROTICS, O YOU SYPHILITICS, O YOU CARDIAC CONDITIONS, O YOU PARAPLEGICS, O YOU CATATONICS, O YOU SCHIZOIDS, O YOU PARANOIDS, O YOU HYPOCHONDRIACS, O YOU CARRIERS OF CAUSES OF DEATH, O YOU SUICIDE CANDIDATES, O YOU POTENTIAL PEACETIME CASUALTIES, O YOU POTENTIAL WAR DEAD, O YOU POTENTIAL ACCIDENT VICTIMS, O YOU POTENTIAL INCREASE IN THE MORTALITY RATE, O YOU POTENTIAL DEAD / YOU WHO EMBRACE LIFE / YOU WHO DETEST LIFE / YOU WHO HAVE NO FEELING ABOUT LIFE / YOU LADIES & GENTS YOU, YOU BROTHERS AND SISTERS YOU, YOU WHO ARE PRESENT YOU, YOU COMRADES YOU, YOU WORTHY LISTENERS YOU, YOU FELLOW HUMANS YOU / YOU WERE WELCOME HERE / WE THANK YOU / GOOD NIGHT "