THE FROZEN
PARROT
The premiere at the Korez Theatre in Katowice was a great success. It has been sold out for five years.
Available in German (original) and Polish.
Characters
Hanna Uhl – 65 years old – retired
Willi Fuchs – 64 years old – civil servant at the pension office
Britta – Hanna's daughter, 45 years old – lives in Bremen
Andi – 43 years old – her brother, a singer, lives in Berlin
Johannes Detlev Püschel – 46 years old – civil servant at the social welfare office
Location: An apartment in Hamburg
ACTION
Hanna Uhl, sixty-five, a single pensioner, a man-resistant lone wolf with a history of arrest, has become involved in a fraudulent scheme:
To supplement her meager pension, she gave in to the urging of her (in love with her) neighbor Willi and fraudulently obtained a blind person's pension using forged medical certificates.
(Willi has access to resources, works at the social welfare office and has the means and connections.)
Now she lives in the hell of her remorse and has to play blind in front of the whole world.
Just at that moment, her two children, Andi and Britta (who hadn't been seen for a long time), invited themselves to her birthday party.
Shaken with fear and shame, Hanna decides to maintain the role of the blind woman even in front of her children.
A hilarious game begins, in which well-kept family secrets, like long-buried mines, explode, blasting Hanna and her children a path into the lie-free present – into love.
REVIEWS
Comedy blends with seriousness here, but the comical aspect predominates.
The further the plot progresses, the funnier the play becomes, sometimes bordering on the grotesque, and yet everything that happens here could happen to you and me:
Life in all its diversity, slightly elevated by the licentia poetica.
(Marta Odziomek, gazeta wyborcza)
But this is not just about laughter, it's also about reflecting on our behavior towards our loved ones - and more.
Another success at the Korez Theatre.
Those who lie know the truth too well.
Lonely people at the end of their rope, in a society that no longer grants them much.
Watching their desperate attempts to win their piece of the pie – running to catch up with their dreams but only stumbling around in the dark – can sometimes make us laugh.
(Marta Klubowicz, translator.)