In the Burgtheater the “mother animal” slaughters itself – theater

2024-02-12 17:30:00

The blueberry juice is out, the pill box is empty. Three sisters gather around their mother’s bed in the hospital. Diagnosis: overdose. The play is about this dreary present mother animal by Leonie Lorena Wyss, which premiered on Saturday in the vestibule of the Burgtheater. The basis for the piece was Wyss’ winning text at the Retzhofer Drama Prize 2023. mother animal (originally “Like from Mother’s Hand”) explores the question of what a mother should be like in our society.

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