Die Zofen

In the organizer's words:

by Jean Genet / Director: Rieke Süßkow

The sisters Claire and Solange are the maids of a gracious woman to whom they are hatefully devoted in sadomasochistic worship. In the absence of their mistress, they rehearse the rebellion in distributed roles, murderous lust and fear of death spice up the game. When the madam actually appears, the interdependence of the three women becomes clear: while the boundaries between imagination and reality become blurred in the play of domination and servitude, the fragile power structure is finally shattered by a real death within the fiction of the play within the play. This most frequently performed play by Jean Genet, who always positioned himself in opposition to the ruling powers, provoked fierce resistance at its premiere in 1947. The young director Rieke Süßkow, who has already been invited to the Theatertreffen twice, brings this play by the radical poète maudit to the stage in a strong staging.