Offending the Audience

Publikumsbeschimpfung Offending the Audience
Written by	Peter Handke
Characters	four speakers
Date premiered	1966 (1966)
Place premiered	Theater am Turm, Frankfurt
Original language	German
Genre	"anti-play"

Offending the Audience is a play by Austrian writer Peter Handke. It is sometimes called an anti-play because of its renouncements of theatricality. It was originally published in German under the title Publikumsbeschimpfung (which better translates as "Insulting the Audience")^[1] in 1966. It premiered in June 1966 at the Theater am Turm [de] in Frankfurt as part of the "Experimental Theatre Week". The play was first produced in London in 1970 at the Almost Free Theatre in Soho by the Interaction Arts Cooperative's TOC (The Other Company) directed by Israeli writer and theatre director Naftali Yavin; the cast included Andrew Norton, Judy Monahan, Jane Bond, Robert Walker and Jan Chappell.