KING KONGS TÖCHTER

by Theresia WALSER Theater im Lendbräukeller, Schwaz DRAMATURGY and PRESS: Susanne SCHARTNER with Sonja KAINZ, Eliane NORCIA, Stephanie SCHATZ, Silvia HUBER, Traudi LAMPRECHT, Günther ETTEL, Herwig WARASIN, Johannes-Fridolin HEISS, Axel WEINGERL, Alejandro BOUCABEILLE Set design: Fritz BACHMANN Costumes: Silvia FRITZ Make-up: Brigitte GURTNER Lighting design: Ralf WAPLER Sound design: Mike MOLL Technical: David PLATTNER / Daniel NÖCKL Music: Christopf GRUD Photos: Kurt SCHARTNER Assistant director: Axel WEINGERL Director: Markus PLATTNER

Theresia Walser on KING KONGS TÖCHTER:

“The play is set in an old people's home. A small, forgotten community in its final situation. King Kong's daughters are the carers. Three young women who doubt whether this can really be a profession. A profession in which, ultimately, nothing succeeds. They refuse to surrender to this helplessness. Whatever they bring to an end should be glorious. They treat death as a vital game, staging the old people in the death scenes of great stars … People die on the anniversaries of their idols' deaths. Death is an appointment, they say, and we are the chief schedulers. The play takes place over one night and portrays, in fragments, the restlessness of the elderly residents during their sleepless hours. But right into the middle of it stumbles Rolfi, a young lad off the street, an adventurer …”

Theresia Walser is a daughter of the author Martin Walser. After working in elderly care for a year, she attended the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Bern from 1990 to 1994, where she trained as an actress. She was a member of the ensemble at the Junges Theater in Göttingen for two years. Today she lives as a writer in Berlin, Mannheim and Freiburg im Breisgau.
Theresia Walser writes plays conceived as a counter-design to conventional stage realism, whose unusual, poetic language is unanimously praised by critics. In 1998 the jury of the magazine “Theater heute” named her Young Playwright of the Year; in the same year she received the Förderpreis of the Schiller-Gedächtnispreis of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere
Between care home and madhouse
End of the line.
Shrill, earthy and infectious!

Markus PLATTNER

PRESS
THEATERVERBAND TIROL
Dr. Ekkehard SCHÖNWIESE

".... In Schwaz there lives a theatre fanatic who, with all his energy, has already beaten his head bloody against every possible wall of our compartmentalised socio-cultural world. He has drawn his conclusions and moved into social work. Not, however, without consequences for his primary passion: the theatre. With "King Kongs Töchter" by Theresia Walser, Markus PLATTNER has let off steam.
That is one story.
The other is that of the "Tyrolean small-stage concept". "King Kongs Töchter" needs only a minimalist set and would therefore be a touring production. Why should this play run only in Schwaz? Innsbruck has given its "independent scene" a festival funded by the state. That is well meant, but unfortunately only good for a privileged few......"