Christoph Ransmayr

A cinema-fanatic prompter loses her script during a catastrophic performance and begins to curse the theater after the curtain goes down. She, the one who always whispered, always breathed the lines of the faltering play onto the stage, becomes the main figure in three seascape night scenes: between wooden icebergs off the west coast of Greenland, she reviles forgetful actors; among coconut palms of papermaché she remembers one bitter love story on the Gulf of Bengal and the beginnings of her own journey to the stage; and finally she turns into a film star against the backdrop of an ancient tragedy on the Thessalian Agean. And in her anger, her disappointments, and all her enthusiasm for the cinema, she plays again and again - theater.