Seven doors

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Seven Doors - Bagatelles is a play by Botho Strauss .

Jan Maagaard, directed the premiere on November 20, 1988 in the Stockholm Stadsteater. The first performance in German-speaking countries took place on December 12th of the same year at the Burgtheater Vienna under the direction of Alexander Seer. The premiere of the play in Germany, staged by Dieter Dorn , took place in 1988 in the Werkraumtheater of the Münchner Kammerspiele .

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There are 11 absurd-comic scenes in quick succession. "The scenes take place in front of a semicircle of seven doors with frosted glass panes in the upper panel." (Botho Strauss on the stage design in the play).

  • The host
  • Homecoming
  • A mistake
  • In the motor show
  • refuge
  • The guards
  • A messenger
  • The suicide and nothing
  • Wedding evening
  • Idols
  • On the long bench

Botho Strauss wrote two more scenes for the Stockholm version.

  • The leather bag
  • Jeannine

expenditure

  • Botho Strauss: Visitors. Three pieces. Visitors. The time and the room. Seven doors . Munich: Hanser 1988. ISBN 3-44615257-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Henrichs: Premierenkritik, Munich , accessed on August 19, 2019
  2. ^ First cast Munich; Radio play version of the production by the WDR