Totally happy (drama)
A 2-person piece by Silke Hassler from 2013 is totally happy . The piece premiered on January 17, 2013 at the Wiener Kammerspiele . The director was Jean-Claude Berutti . The production had an age restriction from 16. The duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
people
- A woman in her mid-thirties
- A man in his late thirties
action
An unsuccessful writer approaches an actress who makes a living doing phone sex.
Reviews
Rousing staging. [...] Jean-Claude Berutti staged the tragic-comic two-person play about love, sex, loneliness and hope in the Kammerspiele for a wildly acclaimed premiere. The standard
Author Silke Hassler put a whistle and sentiment around the really juicy subject for her comedy "Totally Happy", which premiered Thursday. The chamber plays are becoming more and more daring. It will be exciting to see how the older audience perceives this rather explicit representation. But the seniors are also getting younger, factually, spiritually. [...] The Swiss-born Emanuela von Frankenberg not only shows that she has worked with important directors from Hans Lietzau to Peter Zadek , she also proves to be a talented comedian. Hassler's text shows a lot of empathy when it comes to the depths of the supposedly most beautiful thing in the world. She is also good at comedic clip-folding. One is not bored, rather the camouflaging and deceiving of these two people, who in their forties and fifties show both panic and enthusiasm to get involved in something again, make you think. The audience seemed amused at the premiere. Despite the extreme scenario including bondage and suicide attempts, many a nerve of everyday love life is hit here. Instead of lukewarm Hollywood amusement, hearty drama is offered here live, very close to real life. That's how it's done. The press
It all works wonderfully, but now and then one would have wished for more scenic ingenuity from the director. The staging often remains static at the beginning, which means that the first half of the evening remains in the vague for too long. It only gets really exciting towards the end, when the non-binding game suddenly - in the truest sense of the word - becomes deadly serious and the couple, tired of life, want to die a love death together. This is preceded by a fragile performance of Juliet's death monologue from Shakespeare's " Romeo & Juliet ". Here, but also in the passionate expression of the unplaced writer, who longs for nothing more than to tear the existential perceived necessity of art production from his soul ("I hate art!"), A sense of the tragic incompatibility of the will to art and business, of longing and reality. Wiener Zeitung
Today's playwrights no longer take psychological looks into human souls very often. Silke Hassler dares to address the fears and taboos of thirty to forty year olds, their loneliness and their failure. It's about an unemployed actress who ekes out her life on a telephone sex hotline. Your neighbor, an unsaved writer, wants to commit suicide. Hassler brings these characters together skillfully and sensitively. Jean-Berutti implemented this impressively with the formidable actors Emanuela von Frankenberg and Markus Gertken . News