Katja Brunner

Katja Brunner, Switzerland's most successful contemporary playwright, takes William Shakespeare's gender comedy The Taming of the Shrew and juxtaposes it with a linguistically critical story told from the perspective of women and those affected by the traces of male violence. She combines Shakespeare's ‘misogynous humour’ with real forms of patriarchal power and reanimates the old game of love, power and gender. In a many-voiced chorus, a panopticon of nightmares reveals itself, a social panorama of violence that discharges in pressure waves of words and explosive language. A language against dying. In associative landscapes of images, she lustfully writes over popular iconographies of the female, male fantasies, the eternal fairy tales of gender roles and romantic love lies – and leads down to the bloody bottom of our society. A making-untamable of the tame. A poetic declaration of war for a different tomorrow. (Deutsches Theater Berlin)


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