A play about women for good and for bad.
Werdelin’s most recent play is a bittersweet story about three self-seeking sisters who meet in the family summer house several times a year. The eldest sister, the bestselling writer Leise following three failed marriages and several relationships has a great need to be desired by men. Boel leads the life of a caring housewife with a husband and four children, but has a problem controlling her own life. The youngest sister, Neel appears to be uninterested in finding a husband and starting a family, but finds her knowledge of love in the books with which she surrounds herself. The young obliging man next door come to play an important role in the lives of all three sisters and “their abdomen”. He makes much of them and seduces them one by one and becomes the one to puncture the vital lies in which the sisters live. All three of them become wiser in this play about sisterly warfare and solidarity and the strength of the play is the speciality of Werdelin: A woman’s way of measuring herself by other women. Few have the ability of Werdelin to show the role play of this sex with sweet memories and knives up their sleeves. The play is a wonderfully funny description of manners of the lives of women here and now – with love, which come and go, and where the dream of eternal youth is being shaken by the inevitable old age. This new play offers a good challenge to the actors. The production was a great success at “Huset’s Theatre” in Copenhagen and went on to win the Reumert Prize for best Danish play of 2001.
