Mona Winter

Herzflüge
4 D, 3 H, (Doppelbesetzungen möglich), 1 Dek
UA: 06.10.2000 · Landestheater Schwaben, Memmingen · Directed by: Petra Dannenhöfer
The pregnant Queen is sitting on a ladder, and Esmeralda and Jolanda tug at her with their wishes for the child that has still not been born.
Sebastian Lotzer, who wears glasses, ponders the tough fate of the rich and the tougher fate of the poor, when his glasses fall off his nose.
Between the cuckoo clock and the chimes, a joke royal couple reigns, decorated with the insignia of power and house shoes, and for the want of other battles to be in the midst of, in the next scene the King himself lays his hand on the chicken, and even royal intercourse solidifies into a combative fantasy…
In this made-up country, things happen that are gruesome like fairy tales and that have no concern with so-called reality, above all when ‘the people’ interfere…
A poetic parable about uncontrollable relationships.
Herzflüge is a play about the peasants’ Twelve Articles, written by the Munich author Mona Winter under commission by the Landestheater Schwaben. It does not aim to document or historicize; it shows a crazy, out-of-joint world, in which all of the protagonists are fighting for lost causes. The play celebrated its world premiere with a coherent production in front of an enthusiastic audience.” (Memminger Zeitung)
“All of her plays are about war: the war of men at the front and the war of love between the sexes.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)