Marian Blessing Makes Her Escape von E.L. Karhu

Marian Blessing wants to be free. When her son tries to put her in a nursing home, she resorts to extreme measures and shoots him. But what at first sounds like a tragedy soon unfolds into a story about a world where people are still allowed to believe in utopias. Together with her friends Dora Darling, a former dancer, and Ruth Desperado, a radicalized nurse, Marian envisions a society where people genuinely care for one another and the board game of life comes to a gentle end. Finnish author E. L. Karhu has written a zany text brimming with humor and anarchy. Somewhere between a liberation western and a utopian thought experiment, the play never loses sight of its core question: How does one maintain dignity in old age?

Cast

Anke Fonferek
acting as
Marian BlessingAnke Fonferek

Susanne Burkhard
acting as
Marian BlessingSusanne Burkhard

Anna Polke
acting as
Ruth DesperadoAnna Polke

Regina Leenders
acting as
Dolly PartonRegina Leenders

Tim Weckenbrock
acting as
Tim Blessing (u.a.)Tim Weckenbrock