In den Straßen keine Blumen

No Flowers in the Streets

(In den Straßen keine Blumen)

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Cast

variable casting, ca. 6F / 3M

A woman remains childless against her wishes and murders her husband (Yerma). Or she runs off with another man on the day she’s due to marry (Blood Wedding). Or waits a lifetime for her lover (Doña Rosita the Spinster). Or, locked in isolation with her sisters, loses her mind (The House of Bernarda Alba). «Charlotte Roos has artfully slotted Federico Garcia Lorca’s plays into one another, building a tableau in which the lovers of Blood Wedding meet a Yerma despairing of her marriage, Doña Rosita stays single and all the women are imprisoned by Bernarda Alba. Roos retains the sense of the archaic in Lorca’s work, refreshes the language where necessary and creates a powerfully expressive panoply of female fates.» (Süddeutsche Zeitung) «The strength of her text lies in its immediacy and urgency, multiplying Lorca’s strength as though under a magnifying glass.» (Münchner Merkur) «The original text contains a great will to attain freedom, as does Roos’ modern adaptation. The interweaving of the narratives brings the women into a community based on solidarity, albeit one whose members sometimes argue.» (Abendzeitung) «In equal measure a serious homage to Lorca and a feminist call to resistance and action.» (Nachtkritik)

World premiere
21.06.2018 Münchner Volkstheater (Director: Pinar Karabulut)

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