- Theater
Drames de princesses
Geneva, 2010
theaterplay by Elfriede Jelinek
Concept and direction:
Maya Bösch
Dramaturgy :
Michèle Pralong
Cast :
Véronique Alain, Susann Vogel, Dorothea Schürch, Christine Vouilloz, Lucie Zelger
Author :
Elfriede Jelinek
Translation :
Magali Jourdan and Mathilde Sobottke
Set design:
Sylvie Kleiber
Lighting design :
Jean-Michel Broillet
Costumes :
Julia Studer
Make-up:
Mia Vranes
Kung fu training :
Dominique Falquet
Production:
Cie Sturmfrei
Coproduction:
Comédie de Genève - Centre dramatique TPR, Théâtre Populaire Romand, La Chaux-de-Fonds GRÜ Transthéâtre Genève. With the support of the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, the Leenaards Foundation and Services industriels de Genève (SIG). L’Arche is the publisher and agent for the French translation.
In Elfriede Jelinek's subversive work, Snow White is ultimately killed by the hunter. Sleeping Beauty lives subjugated to her prince. Modern heroines are named Rosamunde, Jackie Kennedy, or Ingeborg Bachman. In the world of Elfriede Jelinek, scandalous author and Nobel Prize winner, there are no fairy tales. Just corrosive and jubilant ‘princess dramas’. What if all these female figures were destined to die? What if fairy tales were just a masquerade aimed at keeping women in a subordinate position in a brutal society?
Elfriede Jelinek composed this kaleidoscopic work in 2000, when Jörg Haider's far-right party entered the Austrian government. A variation on Death and the Maiden in five scenes. Maya Bösch, who is making her return to the Comédie, has taken on this rich writing. A story of sex, domination and illusory existence.
création
- 07-12.12.2010 — Comédie de Genève, Geneva
- 31.10.2011 — Black Box GRÜ / Transthéâtre, Geneva
- 05.02.2011 — Théâtre Populaire Romand (TPR), La Chaux-de-Fonds
