Every Saturday three men ensconce themselves with canned beers behind the television in the department store’s basement, while their shopaholic wives go berserk upstairs. The idyll is threatened when a chief fire officer shows up. Magnusson’s tragic-comic comedy is a draw in Germany, where is has been staged in more than 30 theatres. Critics have compared him with playwrights as Woody Allen, Alan Ayckbourn and Yasmina Reza.
