Wild Woman & Other Plays

This second volume of Felix Mitterer's plays in English trans-lation offers further evidence of this dramatist's powerful artistry. A mythological Wild Woman changes the lives of five wood-cutters, exposing their loneliness and desperation. Home reiterates the dictum that "you can't go home again", especially where prej-udice, brutality, and hatred reside. An historical drama based on actual court records, Children of the Devil depicts institutional superstition and cruelty as perpetuated upon the most vulnerable members of society, its children. One Everyman is a modern ver-sion of the traditional medieval morality play, complete with a Devil from Wall Street, while the Biblical analogy, Abraham, concerns the scourge of AIDS -- but even more, the love between a father and his son. The Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer, born in 1948 in the Tyrol, is one of today's leading European dramatists. His two four-part television series, "Piefke-Saga" and "Verkaufte Heimat" were seen by millions of viewers in the German-speaking coun-tries.