Guesthouse Fritzl, the Austrian play about Josef Fritzl...

A Vienna theatre announced plans this week for a production centred on the grim saga of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who is charged with imprisoning and raping his daughter over 24 years.

Sixty-year old Hubsi Kramar, a Harvard-educated artist, is hoping his show will offer a satirical critique of Austrian society, calling it a "cellar soap opera" and declaring that it will deliver "everything you ever wanted to know about the Fritzls". Whether audiences would want to know any more following heavy press coverage last year remains to be seen, but Kramar seems confident that Pension Fritzl (German for Guesthouse Fritzl) will be a success. More...

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4. The Fritzl family in Amstetten: the children downstairs and the children upstairs...