Faith, Hope and Charity : A Little Dance of Death in Five Acts
This is a story
of Elisabeth, a young woman with serious financial problems. She tries
to overcome these by attempting to sell her future corpse already while
still living. She finds out fast that this is not allowed, but the a
worker at the anatomical institute feels sorry for her and lends her the
money anyway. Turns out that Elisabeth already got the necessary amount
of money from somebody else and she is therefore sentenced as a scam
artist. She swears that she intended to return the borrowed money to all
parties as soon as possible and meant to scam nobody, but people don't
really believe her. Her epic-love relationship with ambitious young
police officer comes to an abrupt end when he finds out about her
mischievousness. Devastated and at loss of solutions, the penniless
Elisabeth chooses to commit suicide to escape the situation.
Original time frame of this play by
Ödön von Horváth
is the 1930's, a time when poverty, abuse of the social power,
economical crisis and corruption were part of everyday life. Director
Dalit Bloch sees throughout parallels to present time and wants to
encourage the spectator's recognition of this, therefore the place and
time of adaptation is abstract. The dialog of the play remains in it's
old form in the hope that by choosing this approach, it is possible to
dissolve the distance the audience might feel. Modern set design
together with old-fashioned speech builds a bridge from the old days to
present day.
Freies Theater Therwil
Direction: Dalit Bloch
Set design: Dalit Bloch (concept), Andres Jost
Lighting design: Minna Heikkilä
Costume design: Kurt Walter
Lighting design: Minna Heikkilä
Costume design: Kurt Walter
Assistant: Nathalie Grignaschi
text adaptation: Ueli Blum
Graphic design: Diana Schroth
Performers:
Diana Schroth, Gabriele Bianco, Markus Spillmann, Peter Brêchet, Michael
Enzler, Bri Jost, Werner Kirchhofer, Norina Molina, Claudia Reinhardt,
Gordana Schwizer, Nathalie Grignaschi
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