"Franz Xaver Kroetz is the most fascinating of contemporary West German playwrights. His Through the Leaves sticks like a splinter in the mind."
New York Times
19 Nov - 28 Nov
Dee Evans
Marshall Griffin
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Through the Leaves *2009*
by Franz Xaver Krotez (Translated by Anthony Vivis)
by Franz Xaver Krotez (Translated by Anthony Vivis)
Director Tony Casement
Mercury Theatre Company founder and Artistic Director, Dee Evans, performs as an actor for the first time for the Company in this intimate portrayal of a destructive relationship. Alongside her will be Mercury Company favourite Marshall Griffin (Death of a Salesman, Coriolanus) and Director Tony Casement who earned critical acclaim for the Mercury Theatre Company productions of The Promise and Journey’s End.
Martha runs a butcher’s shop and Otto is a factory worker. The claustrophobic world of Martha’s shop and sitting room often feels too small to contain the brutality of Otto’s language and actions; too small to contain the desperation of Martha’s desire; too small to contain the debris of their continuously destructive relationship. Each of them is alone in a world which seems to have overlooked them. This play is a heartfelt expression for the moments of ‘deep longing’ which remain unfulfilled in all of us.
Writer, Franz Xaver Kroetz helped to define the German realist movement beginning in the 1970’s. A failure at university, he turned for his subject matter away from the ‘classics’ to the lower classes in German society, writing more than 30 plays for stage, television and radio
Contains strong language and scenes of an adult nature. Suitable for 16+ years.
Mercury Theatre Company founder and Artistic Director, Dee Evans, performs as an actor for the first time for the Company in this intimate portrayal of a destructive relationship. Alongside her will be Mercury Company favourite Marshall Griffin (Death of a Salesman, Coriolanus) and Director Tony Casement who earned critical acclaim for the Mercury Theatre Company productions of The Promise and Journey’s End.
Martha runs a butcher’s shop and Otto is a factory worker. The claustrophobic world of Martha’s shop and sitting room often feels too small to contain the brutality of Otto’s language and actions; too small to contain the desperation of Martha’s desire; too small to contain the debris of their continuously destructive relationship. Each of them is alone in a world which seems to have overlooked them. This play is a heartfelt expression for the moments of ‘deep longing’ which remain unfulfilled in all of us.
Writer, Franz Xaver Kroetz helped to define the German realist movement beginning in the 1970’s. A failure at university, he turned for his subject matter away from the ‘classics’ to the lower classes in German society, writing more than 30 plays for stage, television and radio
Contains strong language and scenes of an adult nature. Suitable for 16+ years.
£9.50 / £6 concessions
