An avant-garde play about an interview — but who wrote it?

November 16, 2008 1:41 PM

TheatreFilter: help me find the text (or at least the author) of a play I acted in a long while ago. It was a bizarre avant-garde sort of thing, and the excerpt we performed centered on an interview.

Details, as well as I can remember them:

For what it's worth, I think our director told us the author was French.

The 'interview' portion had four interviewers and four interviewees, all of whom spoke in overlapping fragments. There was a great deal of (precisely scripted) standing up and sitting down, as well as a scene that took place on a bus, I believe.

Again, this was a very long time ago and we only performed an excerpt, but any thoughts on what it might be would be greatly appreciated.

posted by hatta to society & culture (2 comments total)

Jean Claude Van Italie, American Hurrah. The first segment of it is called "The Interview," I think.
posted by HeroZero at 2:13 PM on November 16, 2008

Aha! That's it, I believe. Thanks, HeroZero. It's a difficult play to Google for without the title, as you can imagine. Now to read the whole thing...
posted by hatta at 2:21 PM on November 16, 2008