Die Möglichkeit des Bösen

A heavy, seductive scent of roses hangs over the beautiful Pleasant Street. Miss Strangeworth loves her roses: for her, they represent home and this home is Strangeworth House on Pleasant Street. The unremarkable woman is the anchor of her neighbourhood. She has been living here for three generations: everyone knows her and she knows everyone else. Yet nobody suspects that the universally respected Miss Strangeworth is pursuing a clandestine second life. Her secret pleasure will become the doom of the community.

In her precisely choreographed and visually powerful works, director Marie Schleef zooms in on the forgotten, the repressed and the invisible. She translates the oppressive inner state of her characters into emotional images. Schleef discovers Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) for the stage - an American classic and master of the uncanny who is little known in Germany. Jackson, who is considered the ‘queen of gothic fiction’ and whose fiction combined everyday observations with elements of the absurd and uncanny, influenced various authors of subsequent generations, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King and Carmen Maria Machado. Her posthumously published short story is being performed for the first time in German-speaking countries.

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