Theater Wasserburg
I am like you, I love apples
Comedy by Theresa Walser / Directed by: Annett Segerer / With: Susan Hecker, Amelie Heiler, Rosalie Schlagheck, Thorsten Krohn
In a shabby artist's dressing room, three ousted dictator's wives meet. Their husbands are dead or imprisoned, and now they wait for their glamorous lives to be filmed, although they would prefer to be part of a grand opera. Mrs. Margot (Honecker) considers herself unrepresentable anyway. She is not here as a woman, but as a misunderstood idea that she immortalizes as a stuffy GDR miniature world on her vanity. After Leila (Ben Ali) hastily took a ton of gold bars with her during her escape, she bitterly complains in her elegant Chanel suit about the lack of calls from Western political celebrities, while the life-hungry luxury matron Imelda (Marcos) with her 3,000 shoes and 1,800 bulletproof bras is still prepared for every ball and every assassination attempt.
In some ways, the divas agree: Their bad reputation is due to the lying press, the will of the people is overrated, and they have to apologize for nothing. Otherwise, they increasingly clash, outdoing each other with monstrosities and fueling a shameless catfight, where the interpreter Gottfried increasingly finds himself caught in the crossfire. When he fails to translate all of the ladies' statements correctly out of desperation, he gives the events surprisingly unexpected turns...
How the hunger for power, megalomania, and loss of reality of brutal dictators are reflected in the grotesque behaviors of their wives is portrayed through Theresa Walser's sharp-witted wordplay and the virtuoso performances of the actors Amelie Heiler (Margot), Rosalie Schlagheck (Leila), Susan Hecker (Imelda), and Thorsten Krohn (Gottfried) in a delightfully malicious manner, leaving one sometimes breathless with laughter.
“Imaginative urban theater that is not easily forgotten.” (SZ)
“All the actors deliver a brilliant performance, perfectly positioned between entertaining satire and the bitter reality of detached megalomania.” (OVB Online)
Doors open at 7:30 PM
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
