Markus Bauer

verachtung
2 D, 1 H
frei zur UA
Volker works for art, Ina works for money. They don’t earn enough to maintain the inherited parental home. But then Ina thinks she hears her dementia-stricken father utter an audible “NO”. That can only refer to the planned sale, she thinks, she claims, she wants. She wants to stay, if only for their daughter Laura. Volker doesn’t agree. But what does he have to say? Producing art no one is interested in, spending money he didn’t earn, advocating beliefs Ina doesn’t want to hear. But Ina’s sister, she wants to hear them. And buy Volker’s art. And the house. And she’d even take Volker. She’s got enough money, and everything else Ina always got handed to her on a silver platter anyway.

Just as the sickly sweet, heavy smell of Trésor, the dead mother’s perfume, inexplicably sticks to all of the play’s characters, so does the greed and contempt. And exactly as the perfume is being passed on from the one to the other, the grudge spreads creeping and unstoppable among the people and the house of their childhood, which has become a symbol for victory or defeat.