On the Royal RoadCarefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right wing populism, which spreads like a virus and has a lasting effect on global politics. Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhaps none of her works display that quality as clearly as On the Royal