From backstage farces to postmodern deconstruction, theatre has a habit of turning its gaze on itself. This tendency is pushed to breaking point in Werner Schwab's last play, presented in its English-language premiere by Just a Must. In what the Austrian playwright christened his "theatre-extinction comedy", the theatre has ceased to mean and the real world and the stage world are collapsing into one another. As implied in the title, Schwab's is a theatre stumbling towards its death, exhaling its final laboured breaths.
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