your wedding dress is smeared slips of foreign blood, her black wig. It is as a space ship spits the young woman out on this pink coloured bed, and into the faceless edward-hopper ash hotel room, which has imagined for the stage designer Simeon Meier for the world premiere of “Gun Love” is great to Theater Neumarkt .

The room is jacked up and on display as the exhibit of an exhibition called “Tristesse à l’américaine”. And its resident stares lost in your hands, while the Indian chief looks on the naive picture on the wall to be sovereign over the vast Expanses of the Prairie, as if there still have a future, and the Texas Televangelist Joel Osteen in the TV compared to his phrases about the power of faith over him that can move mountains. But here he scared away, not even cockroaches, let alone the voices in the head of the fourteen-year-old Pearl.

The Sweet and the Evil

“My mother was a cup of sugar. You could borrow her anytime”, it whispers it from the Off, the first sentences of the novel, “Gun Love” in Mexico living American author, and President of the author’s club PEN, Jennifer Clement, who came to the Premiere. You will develop into a melancholy leitmotif of the Evening and again in the memories of the teenager to push, the in the hotel room-wasteland – mother soul alone – makes the past to reminisce.

The sweet mother of the girl was from a Mr. bath: it is dead. The Sweetness always goes after the Evil, it is called in the German subtitles, which accompany the English-language performance. Cold electronic Sounds, foaming on (music: Sandro Tajouri), and the spectator crawls a shiver over the skin, before Lucy Wirth spoke on the stage of the first word.

reveals The compaction of the difficulties of directing fights, if you bring a novel to the stage.

Director and musician Tom Schneider, 1966 born in Saxony, it is understood that brokenness nachzittern evening as 2016 in his Sandra Hüller-on the Neumarkt, the “pictures of your big love,” by Wolfgang Herrndorf. However, he does not leave it at the sensitive seismograph theatre. Finally, it should Pearl the reviews as it from the Parking lot of a rundown trailer Park in Florida, in a shabby hotel room on the edge of the USA, in the border town of Laredo, Texas, landed: from the “Me? I was raised in a car” to the bloody wedding dress.

the Latter is a strong image which has suppressed the film of the performance, of course, transverse to the Text, precisely because of the Trigger qualities. In the novel, the young people, given the inherited bride dress after the first night with her boyfriend, because she goes out with a neighbor from the trailer Park, into the Unknown. Real prospects do not see as an orphaned foster child who is at the mercy of the “care” of the state. And your mother taught you, never look back – but even as a 17-Year-old with her tiny Pearl in the Mercury of the father of the home took off.

Gross compression

– understandable, but rough – dramatic compaction reveals the difficulties of directing fights, if you tried to lift a novel on the boards. In particular, such a poetic, restrained, open of the novel, is pushed under a subtle but clear critique of society. The rhythm, the charm of the almost sing-book about a Childhood in a weapons rigid trailer Park to preserve, operated cutter with evokativem music used and occupied the Pearl in 1984, in Zurich-born American Native Speaker, Lucy Wirth. A excellent idea.

That it does not, however, two hours of Theater, was also the Director of clear. He sends the heroine on a post-traumatic Trip, in the roles of the other slips: an immense task, the actress fails from time to time. Time, they caricatured wound up the torn-off Pastor who is secretly with weapons, and for the death of the mother is partly responsible. Time you mislead a sketch of the friendly Mexican neighbor, who is profiting, as a witch-tale and a Half. Convincing the object theatre scene for the Jewish foster-father with the big heart. Even Wirth in the course of the Soiree grows into the role-playing game, and in the fragile Sweetness of this “Gun Love”. You’d call like: Please don’t shoot!

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 17.03.2019, 22:12 PM