"The study at hand ... presents the outcomes of a research project stretching over several years. They are provided in three differents parts, consisting of two written discussions on "The Aesthetics (or Poetics) of Staging a Play" ... and "The Ethics and Politics of Staging a Play" ... and two sets of recordings of the 2011 Melbourne production of Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Dramas that was an integral part of this research project in the field of Theatre Performance ... The research objective that was outlined at the beginning of the project is best summarised in the initial title: "Recovering Jelinek for the English-Speaking Stage -- Problems of Inter-Cultural Transfer and Theatrical Strategies to Fill the 'Gap of Translation'"--Page 9.