Chutzpah (drama)

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Chutzpah is a comedy based on the novel You Gotta Have Balls by Lily Brett (2005) and edited by Eva Demski . The piece was premiered on November 22nd, 2012 at the Wiener Kammerspiele in the presence of Lily Brett. Directed by Dieter Berner , the music came from the Austrian musician Parov Stelar . The playing time is approx. 2 hours and 10 minutes.

people

  • Ruth
  • Edek
  • Sonja
  • Max
  • Zofia
  • Walentyna

action

Ruth cannot understand that her father Edek, who only moved from Melbourne to New York a few weeks ago, is far from having a peaceful retirement. And that old age is the wrong term for the lively eighty-seven year old. First he makes himself "useful" in Ruth's correspondence office and mixes everything up there. But a little later, as a matter of course and without Ruth having been informed beforehand, Zofia and her friend Walentyna move to Edek's house - two women in their prime who Edek had met on a trip to Poland. When Edek, along with Zofia and Walentyna, also wants to open a restaurant on the Lower Eastside that specializes in meatballs, Ruth's nerves are put to the test.

Reviews

The world premiere at the Wiener Kammerspiele with Otto Schenk and Sandra Cervik in the leading roles received very positive reviews. Der Kurier wrote : "A wonderful book, a clever stage version [...] and an Otto Schenk to kneel down - Lily Brett's novel 'Chuzpe' in the Wiener Kammerspiele becomes a moving, entrancingly comical plea for courage and joie de vivre."

German edition of the original

  • Lily Brett: Chuzpe: Roman , translated from English by Melanie Walz. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-518-41827-7

Performances and filming

In a production by the Hamburger Kammerspiele , the play was shown both there and at the Berlin Theater am Kurfürstendamm a . a. performed with Ulrike Folkerts . Under the title Chutzpah - Humans need Klops! the novel was filmed for television and aired on the first on September 5, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meschugge, so beautiful. In: kurier.at. November 23, 2012, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Chutzpah - with Ulrike Folkerts, Joachim Bliese a. a. Retrieved January 4, 2017 .
  3. ^ Chutzpah - Hamburger Kammerspiele - Theater. Retrieved January 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ TV: Peace, Joy, Meatball. Jüdische Allgemeine, September 3, 2015, accessed January 4, 2017 .