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Two German Plays
Includes the plays The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness and Warweser
Warweser tells the story of a homosexual love affair between a Jew and a Nazi in late 1930s Berlin. It was premiered in Heidelberg in 1996 and won the Frankfurter Autorenstiftung prize.
In The Man Who…, a strange man comes to audition fora production of Romeo and Juliet, and the boundaries between life and theatre begin to blur. A volume published in association with the Goethe-Institut London and the Royal Court Theatre.
Warweser tells the story of a homosexual love affair between a Jew and a Nazi in late 1930s Berlin. It was premiered in Heidelberg in 1996 and won the Frankfurter Autorenstiftung prize.
In The Man Who…, a strange man comes to audition fora production of Romeo and Juliet, and the boundaries between life and theatre begin to blur. A volume published in association with the Goethe-Institut London and the Royal Court Theatre.
160 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2002
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May 21, 2009
Two very different plays, but both are quite interesting.
The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness by Moritz Rinke is simply fantastic! It is physical, verbally and thematically beautiful, and requires thought and attention. A man shows up at a theater in a city being ravaged by a war of some sort and seems to have come from another world. The people he meets transform him and he transforms them back. This may sound trite, but the play is anything but. In Rinke's hands these characters are complicated souls and their world is filled with shadows, and the play makes us look at the cynicism that permeates our world.
Warweser by Katharina Gericke is much more straight-forward stylistically than Rinke's play, but it too packs a punch. What is most surprising about this play is that the central conflict doesn't come from where you expect it to. Two teenage boys (one Jewish, one Aryan) fall in love in Germany in 1938. Though the Nazis play a big part in the story, what the play is centrally about is love, loss, and how people continue to put their souls out there knowing the pain that comes with it.
The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness by Moritz Rinke is simply fantastic! It is physical, verbally and thematically beautiful, and requires thought and attention. A man shows up at a theater in a city being ravaged by a war of some sort and seems to have come from another world. The people he meets transform him and he transforms them back. This may sound trite, but the play is anything but. In Rinke's hands these characters are complicated souls and their world is filled with shadows, and the play makes us look at the cynicism that permeates our world.
Warweser by Katharina Gericke is much more straight-forward stylistically than Rinke's play, but it too packs a punch. What is most surprising about this play is that the central conflict doesn't come from where you expect it to. Two teenage boys (one Jewish, one Aryan) fall in love in Germany in 1938. Though the Nazis play a big part in the story, what the play is centrally about is love, loss, and how people continue to put their souls out there knowing the pain that comes with it.
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