Marlene Streeruwitz

The scene: the recording studio of a TV station, a music video is being cut, sports footage is being commented, the best female moderator for a home programme with communicative impact for everday life is cast, by men, of course. – scene for the cruel, “normal” chauvinism, which conforms to the norm and is subconscious and thus all the more brutal. It tells something about the cowardice of people as well as about the helplessness of their jokes and the pitifulness of their behaviour towards themselves and others, but also doesn’t spare the women, who are portrayed as players in this game and only sometimes as the victims, which they might still be if you look at it from an institutional viewpoint, but partially also because they desperately want to be part of this game, with the famous ambivalent feeling and the shame it causes, but despite this and at all costs.
The author has written a new, brilliantly snappy play, a real satire with great poetic power.