It was only last year, forty years after its premiere, that Elfriede Jelinek finally gave the green light for a new staging of her legendary play Burgtheater, which lays bare Austria’s National Socialist past. In this new production by Milo Rau at Vienna’s Burgtheater, both the rehearsals and the performance reflect today’s political climate, as Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has become the largest party in parliament, having won the most votes in the last general election.