As part of Tata Literature Live! 2021
Julian’s parents are getting divorced. This rattles his idea of love. Does adult love pass as quickly as the love for lemon-flavoured ice-cream or chestnuts or a guinea pig? He is quite sure that he loves Lia and will always love her: “Love you.” “Love you not,” says Lia. Who loves whom – and why, to be honest? What does love mean, and how does it work at present? And what is the difference between “I love you” and “Love you”? And what is the opposite of love?
Twelve-year-old Julian and eleven-year-old Lia face the small but important differences and also the big questions about love and its impermanence. And they let all the loved ones, even those almost forgotten, have their say, they put themselves in the shoes of the living and the dead, of the dancing grandparents and the arguing parents, and even in the shoes of loved ones in the future. In this way, the children condense their love into an eventful story and simultaneously win for themselves important moments of their own lives.
Are those that we love the ones who change our view of the world – and how does a new loved one deal with it? In the end, Julian knows at least one thing for sure: For him, there is only one love that lasts forever, even after death.
(Source in German: © Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb)
The performance will be followed by a discussion about translating from German to Marathi with the cast and director, Sunil Shanbag, Mrunmayee Shivapurkar, and Jayashree Joshi.
The Playwright:
Kristo Šagor was born in 1976 in Stadtoldendorf. He studied linguistics as well as literature and theatre studies at the Free University of Berlin. He writes and stages plays and composes his own stage arrangements for existing works, including Goethe's “Werther”, Horváth's “Jugend ohne Gott” (Youth without God) and most recently “Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum” (The lost honour of Katharina Blum) based on Heinrich Böll’s novel.
He has received numerous awards for his plays, including the Audience Award at the Heidelberg Play Market in 2001 and the Youth Play Award in 2019, the Author’s Award at the Dutch-German children's and youth theatre festival "Kaas und Kappes" in 2003 and 2005, the Baden-Württemberg Youth Theatre Award in 2014 and the Mülheim Children's Play Award in 2019. For his directorial work he received the 2008 German Theatre Prize DER FAUST as the best director in children's and youth theatre. Kristo Šagor lives in Berlin.
Author’s biography (Source: © Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb)
The Group:
Tamaasha Theatre, set up in 2014, has worked extensively on performance making, exploring and extending alternative performance spaces, and supporting the theatre ecosystem in Mumbai. Studio Tamaasha, an intimate performance space run by Tamaasha Theatre, is a pioneering experiment in running a curated mixed performance space, which encourages diverse audiences to engage with process and outcome with artists.
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