ULRIKE MARIA STUART (KÖNIGINNENDRAMA)
Jelinek interweaves Schiller’s heroines, Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth, with the modern German history: The actresses playing Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth fight a verbal duel in which ideologies rage against each other. Jelinek creates a linguistic network of erotica and politics based on Schiller’s stanza, references from contemporary history…
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Locked up in a flat, a solitary woman makes her confession. Amid domestic chores, dodgy phone calls, a sex-mad brother-in-law and a forever screaming baby she tells us the story of how her love for a young student led to her imprisonment at the hands of her jealous husband. Through…
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