Leonie Lorena Wyss

**Awarded with the author prize of the Heidelberg Play Market 2023**
If blue is a feeling, a very beautiful one, then the disappearance of blue is grey. The breasts grow and with them the desire - but not for Sebastian. Thirteen cousin heads nod and bob and eat and drink and watch and listen to exactly what is happening. Submerged with shame under the mushroom in the soup. Bum bum ice cream and melons and suddenly blue and spring awakening. And thirteen cousin heads nod and still don't know how sensual the blue and how grey its loss can be.
Adolescence and female bodies, first love, painful loss, demarcation, family, family and family again and again. In this highly delicate and lustfully sensual composition of words, Leonie Lorena Wyss describes a young woman who gradually discovers herself and her desire for another woman. Shame, insecurity and a lack of words repeatedly drive the protagonist on a poetic and aromatic escape into the various food offerings at the annual family celebrations - inescapable relationship status checks. With apparent lightness and humour, Leonie Lorena Wyss tells of the effort of growing up, of the happiness of first love, but also of the pain that can make the heart stand still for a while.