Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to this year's Edinburgh German Play:
HAUTKOPF
by Kristo ?agor
at 7.30 pm on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 February (running time 75 minutes)
in Adam House Theatre, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
Tickets are available from [log in to unmask] (£3 concessions,
£6 full price), and some information on Kristo and the play is
included below.
All best,
Laura
KRISTO ?AGOR is a German dramatist, director and journalist. He was
born in 1976 in Stadtoldendorf, grew up in Lübeck, and now lives and
works in Berlin. Kristo wrote his first play ('Es geht uns gut') in
1993, and since then fifteen of his plays have been published by
Gustav Kiepenheuer. They have been produced in many cities in Germany
and abroad, including Munich, Cologne, Weimar, Bremen, Mannheim,
Sydney, Tallinn and now Edinburgh.
'Hautkopf' (2005) combines lively social satire and entertainment with
a more serious treatment of right-wing violence and youth crime. It
focuses on the teenager Tobias and his attempt to break away from his
bourgeois upbringing. Tobias? teenage rebellion struggles to get off
the ground, as his father - a liberal politician - simply wants him
to be happy. Driven to desperate measures, Tobias finds a form of
activity that his father could never accept: he joins a group of
right-wing extremists. The skinheads? violence is juxtaposed with
scenes satirizing the hypocritical, media-obsessed society they have
rejected. Will Tobias? father rise to the challenge, or will Tobias?
radical transformation prove irreversible?
--
Dr Laura Bradley
University of Edinburgh
DELC
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
