"Rechnitz (der Würgeengel)" by Elfriede Jelinek is about the power of language to distort and to obfuscate. It is about people who hide behind an excess of words.
I am one of the lucky few to snatch a ticket for Peter Stein's 12-hour production of Dostoyevsky's The Demons. The ticket price gives an interesting insight into the economics of the performing arts.