Great FALL

KPGT

Great FALL by Peter Handke70’Great FALL is the sixth out of seven titles by Peter Handke that KPGT presents for 25 years.KASPAR, THE HORROR OF VOID, WINTER JOURNEY TO THE RIVERS DANUBE, SAVA, DRINA AND MORAVA, KAS ACROSS LAKE BODENSEE, THE SCORN OF AUDIENCE, and DON JUAN are plays, novels, and essays that KPGT has been performing since the nineties, counting on Handke as a house writer, whom they played the most and most frequently, along with Shakespeare, Molière, Dušan Jovanović, Heinrich Müller, and Danilo Kiš.Great FALL is a novel about the Nobel Prize written by Peter Handke eight years before he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019. Its 'protagonist' is an 'old actor' who is not sure whether he should accept a lifetime achievement award or not. Walking through meadows, bushes, and forests to the urban jungle, hesitating, he compiles a Handkean inventory of people, sounds, insects, birds, sadness, and despair, a report on the state of the world as the writer's autobiography, for whom the greatest recognition is the greatest fall in the world he reports on.Great FALL is a play that is a drama, but also a ballet, but mostly a rave. The ballet dances to the music of rain, wind, highways, crickets, and the city. Hundreds of passers-by walk, run, fly, and float over the techno-meadow and through the techno-forest disappearing into the techno-abyss.