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You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid, with half an eye on his former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the ruthless underdog Irene. Marie doesn't waste any time weeping - Desiree wants her. Bourgeois existence or suicide. There are no other choices. Vienna, 1923. A discontented post-war generation diagnose youth to be their sickness and do their best to destroy it. This is a shocking, erotically charged play by Austrian writer Ferdinand Bruckner, presented in a compelling new version by Martin Crimp.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Pains of Youth
• Author: Martin Crimp
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780571255641
• ISBN: 0571255647
• ID: 04380329
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 145 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. November 2009

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