Justine del Corte

Die Ratte
2 D, 2 H, 1 Dek, Mutter auf dem Anrufbeantworter, 1 Ratte
UA: 19.01.2008 · Schauspielhaus Zürich · Directed by: Roland Schimmelpfennig
One is snappy, the other mild. One fussy and the other chaotic. One doesn’t have children and one is pregnant. Hysteria and insanity. Maria and Isabell. Two sisters. Isabell and her husband Richard are visiting Maria and her husband Nick. In New York. Richard anticipates quarrels. Expresses his wish for them to stay in a hotel repeatedly, without achieving anything. No, they are staying with Maria. There’s a codeword for the emergency: wild boar. Wild boar equals error, is unbearable, is the emergency exit. And lo and behold: swiftly, the two sisters unleash their tempers. Spy, rummage, slander, lie, envy, provoke, scream, wail, vent their spleen. In every respect. In between the phone calls of the hated mother. And when Richard very discreetly starts talking about the wild boar, it becomes clear: there is no escape. Welcome to the sisterly purgatory.
In Justine del Corte’s black sisterly comedy, quails are slaughtered and rats are hunted, characters hate, love and scheme. A blazing firework of blows. Without mercy.
Translated into: Turkish