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Orpheus steigt herab
Tennessee Williams German by Wolf Christian Schröder
A small town, a village in the middle of nowhere where time seems to have stood still. The same old conversations of a tight-knit community that share a dark past: Twenty years ago, Jabe Torrance, owner of a general store, murdered the father of his current wife, Lady. At that time he led a racist mob that burned the Italian-born man along with his vines. Everyone knows this, only Lady is keeping the truth hidden. Now Jabe is dying and Lady is running the shop alone. Tennessee Williams lets his modern Orpheus descend into this small-town hell: Val Xavier, a charismatic young singer, an outsider who takes on a job as a temporary worker in Lady's business and gives Lady the possibility of a new life. However, the attempt to break out of this bigoted, xenophobic world seems doomed from the start.
In his drama ORPHEUS RISES DOWN, Williams shows the destructive mechanisms of a society characterized by xenophobia in a place in the southern states of the USA in the 1950s - and in doing so tells a story that continues to play out in a similar form everywhere repeated at all times.
Subject to change.
A small town, a village in the middle of nowhere where time seems to have stood still. The same old conversations of a tight-knit community that share a dark past: Twenty years ago, Jabe Torrance, owner of a general store, murdered the father of his current wife, Lady. At that time he led a racist mob that burned the Italian-born man along with his vines. Everyone knows this, only Lady is keeping the truth hidden. Now Jabe is dying and Lady is running the shop alone. Tennessee Williams lets his modern Orpheus descend into this small-town hell: Val Xavier, a charismatic young singer, an outsider who takes on a job as a temporary worker in Lady's business and gives Lady the possibility of a new life. However, the attempt to break out of this bigoted, xenophobic world seems doomed from the start.
In his drama ORPHEUS RISES DOWN, Williams shows the destructive mechanisms of a society characterized by xenophobia in a place in the southern states of the USA in the 1950s - and in doing so tells a story that continues to play out in a similar form everywhere repeated at all times.
Subject to change.