Eine Stille für Frau Schirakesch

A Moment of Silence for Mrs Shirakesh

(Eine Stille für Frau Schirakesch)

Deutsch
Cast

4F / 2M

Precisely 77 minutes from now, Mrs. Shirakesh will be stoned to death in the marketplace of Chundakar. Simultaneously, a TV talk show is trying to pay silent tribute to this cruel act from afar. The TV host Hilda Ludowsky has invited the young, traumatized soldier Rose, who only recently returned from a tour of duty, and her father, Mr. Fahnenberg. They are joined by the beauty queens Ruth and Heidrun, who just stirred up a big controversy with their bikini pageant in Chundakar, and a General named Gert, whose unit was at least able to set up port-a-potties in Chundakar’s marketplace to provide some relief to the women there. The guests are clashing already, even before the broadcast begins. They can’t even agree on the term “war”, and the escalating controversy over education and human rights soon will lead to anything but a moment of silence.

World premiere
02.09.2011 Theater Osnabrück / Theater Freiburg (Director: Annette Pullen)

Translations
Czech Ticho za paní Širakéšovou (Translators: Martin Hýča / Václav Cejpek)
English A Silence for Frau Schirakesch (Translator Neil Blackadder)
French (Translator: Hélène Mauler)
Swedish Tystnad för Frau Schirakesch (Translator: Maria Tellander)

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