Am Ziel is a play by Austrian playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard, written in 1981 and first performed in the same year at the Salzburger Festspiele.
The first act of the play describes the back story of the characters, but also reveals that, unusually, this year the pair have asked a young playwright to join them on their sea-side retreat.
The second act, set in their summer house on the coast, reveals a rising tension in the relationship between the mother and the daughter, who has taken a fancy to the young intellectual.
[2] The play was translated to English by Jan-Willem Van Den Bosch and performed by Volcano Theatre Company directed by Kathryn Hunter.
A BBC Radio 3 production was adapted by Stephen Jeffreys and starred Geraldine McEwan as the mother, Imelda Staunton as the daughter, and Julian Rhind-Tutt as the writer.