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Germany Plays 2
A host of excellent plays have emerged in Germany since re-unification. Included in this Jamaica, by Oliver Bukowski, Parrot's Lies , by Andreas Marber, Malaria , by Simone Schneider, and Holy Mothers , by Werner Schwab.
256 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2000
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December 1, 2008
A very different collection of plays than the first volume, it is just as interesting a read.
JAMACA is a very sad farce (who know that could exist!) about two scragglers who find the body of a rich man's son and decide to stage a kidnapping for ransom money. At times surreal and others just plain funny, part of what makes this play work is that you know how it is going to end and yet you still want to go on the ride.
PARROTS' LIES presents a painfully familiar scene to anyone who does theater, or art in general. And though it is the most shallow of the four plays it is still very realistic to the business of art.
MALERIA is a play that takes you into a world that entices you as a fiction, but reality never lets go. It takes place in a Berlin under reconstruction and gentrification (if that is the right word) but it is about the sorted loves and relationships of those who live in the construction zone.
HOLY MOTHERS is a three-hander about women (more similar than they would like to acknowledge) who long for certain things we the audience know they will never have, and trick themselves into false hope as a means of surviving loneliness. Each scene subtlety changes stylistically so you never feel totally grounded, and the language is earthy and poetic at the same time.
JAMACA is a very sad farce (who know that could exist!) about two scragglers who find the body of a rich man's son and decide to stage a kidnapping for ransom money. At times surreal and others just plain funny, part of what makes this play work is that you know how it is going to end and yet you still want to go on the ride.
PARROTS' LIES presents a painfully familiar scene to anyone who does theater, or art in general. And though it is the most shallow of the four plays it is still very realistic to the business of art.
MALERIA is a play that takes you into a world that entices you as a fiction, but reality never lets go. It takes place in a Berlin under reconstruction and gentrification (if that is the right word) but it is about the sorted loves and relationships of those who live in the construction zone.
HOLY MOTHERS is a three-hander about women (more similar than they would like to acknowledge) who long for certain things we the audience know they will never have, and trick themselves into false hope as a means of surviving loneliness. Each scene subtlety changes stylistically so you never feel totally grounded, and the language is earthy and poetic at the same time.
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