BRANDES is a play concerning the fact when women are fascinated by powerful men. This is a play about Georg Brandes, who is the main character of the modern break trough and the Father of the Cultural Radicalism. He is a dangerous seducer too, who takes the women’s liberation – and especially the sexual one – into his own hands. Brandes does not only operate with the theory. This liberalism, he is fighting for, does also originate from his own soul that is full of relish and unfaithfulness.
When we meet the very young Adda Ravnkilde she is happily engaged to the landowner Peter Scavenius. In the meantime a black cat sneaks between them because of the sprouting authorship of Adda. More than anything else, she wants to publish her inner thoughts which the conservative landowner without vision does not like. A break-up is inevitable. In Copenhagen Adda meets Brandes. She chases her dream of publishing her book and wants his constructive feedback. The meeting with Brandes seals the faith of the young Adda. His whole life, Brandes was surrounded by strong women whose meeting with this charismatic man became fateful and this happened to Adda too.
