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"The New Trial" is Peter Weiss's final drama, completed only months before
his death in 1982 and never before published in English. One of Europe's most
important 20th-century playwrights - often considered as influential as Brecht
and Beckett - Weiss is best known to American audiences as the author of the
Broadway play "Marat/Sade" and the three-volume novel "The Aesthetics of
Resistance", which has elicited comparison with Joyce's "Ulysses" and Garcia
Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Initially influenced by Franz Kafka
and later by the American Henry Miller, Weiss worked to expose the hypocrisy,
the deception, and the nature of aggression in the contemporary world. A transformative "updating" of Kafka's novel "The Trial", "The New Trial"
presents a surreal, hallucinatory look at the life of "Josef K.," chief
attorney in an enormous multinational firm that exploits both his idealism and
his self-doubt in order to present to the world a public face that will mask
its own dark and fascistic intentions. Fusing Marxist and capitalist
perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market
expansion, Weiss evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is
for sale. This edition of "The New Trial" is designed to facilitate theatrical
teaching and stage production of the play. An extensive introduction by James
Rolleston and Kai Evers situates the work in the full context of Weiss's life,
including his Swedish exile during the regime of the Third Reich. In addition,
the play's text is followed by interviews with Weiss and his original
co-director (and wife) Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, as well as an account of the
challenges of the first English staging by director Jody McAuliffe. "The New Trial" is Peter Weiss's final drama, completed only months before
his death in 1982. This edition of "The New Trial" is designed to facilitate
theatrical teaching and stage production of the play. The play presents a
surreal, hallucinatory look at the life of "Josef K."
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