The Belle Vue

Horváth's setting for this black political farce is a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the 1920s where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac - wealthy and despotic. Under her sole occupancy the hotel is falling apart and sliding even deeper into decadence. There is no future and no hope until a young woman arrives with a fortune to spend. What follows is a riot of confusion and mistaken identities, satirising the despair and futility of a continent poised on the brink of fascism.

Horváth (1901-1938) was accidentally killed in Paris after fleeing from the Nazis. The Belle Vue, one of 16 plays, was not performed until 1969. This translation marked the British premiere, in a production by the Actors Touring Company.

Author: Ödön Von Horváth
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 01/01/1998
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.10w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9781870259736