Theater

Drames de princesses

Geneva, 2010

Cie Sturmfrei

Premiered on: December 7, 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

we went on tour:

31.10.2011 — Black Box GRÜ / Transthéâtre, Geneva
05.02.2011 — Théâtre Populaire Romand (TPR), La Chaux-de-Fonds

Drames de princesses

Geneva, 2010

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