The people who buy paintings like this aren't just driven by aesthetic desire. People who buy paintings like this want a story. A story that catapults them into the orbit of the Führer.As Nicola and Philipp are clearing out their late father's house, they find an old painting stashed in the attic: a quaint watercolour of a church on a pale summer day, signed 'A. Hitler'.Nicola wants to sell it. Philipp wants to keep it. Philipp's wife Judith wants to burn it.A jagged satire from one of Germany's foremost playwrights, Nachtland opened at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in February 2024.
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The people who buy paintings like this aren't just driven by aesthetic desire. A story that catapults them into the orbit of the Führer.As Nicola and Philipp are clearing out their late father's house, they find an old painting stashed in the attic: a quaint watercolour of a church on a pale summer day, signed 'A.
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You're never quite on solid ground with Marius von Mayenburg's destabilising, endlessly fascinating new play . . . A play that's hard to classify - but easy to watch, bewildered and enraptured all at once.
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A jagged satire from one of Germany's foremost playwrights.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571390380
Publisert
2024-03-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
113 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
5 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

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Biographical note

Marius von Mayenburg was born in 1972 in Munich. In 1998 he began a collaboration with Thomas Ostermeier at Deutsches Theater in Berlin that continued, from 1999, at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. He was awarded several prizes for his first play Fireface (1997). Since then he has written numerous plays, including The Ugly One, The Stone, Martyr and Plastic, which have been translated into over thirty languages and performed both in Germany and abroad. Since 2009 Mayenburg directs regularly at the Schaubühne in Berlin, as well as in other cities in Germany and across the world. His work as a translator also includes contemporary plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp and Richard Dresser.