Iss, mein Kind: Szenische Lesung von Sophie Steinbeck

In the organizer's words:

A feminist rewrite of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy "Titus Andronicus", goulash and wine included.

There are 30 place settings on a long table. A pot of goulash is bubbling. The smell fills the room. The audience is invited to sit down at the table with an actress, eat and drink. She tells her child a bedtime story: the story of Tamora, who ate her own children.
In the play "Titus Andronicus", Shakespeare describes Tamora as a villain, a manipulative woman who uses her body and her children for her own purposes. In "Eat, my child", she is a sister, role model, identification. The text deals with cannibalism and motherhood, closeness and power and explores the question of what emancipatory potential lies in the overwriting of canonized female roles.
"Eat, my child" by Sophie Steinbeck was nominated for the Hans Gratzer Prize at the Schauspielhaus Wien in 2024 under the title "ihr kinderlein kommet (und gehet doch all)". Steinbeck works as a freelance author and dramaturge at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

A production of the HMT "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig