THE PRESIDENTS

Three elderly women daydream, bluster, fantasize, make a racket, to escape from the daily grind. A scary scream, a folly, a work of art in language. Werner Schwabs first and most well-known play is poetic and revolting, fantastic and trivial, a literary masterpiece of linguistic confusion. (Meisterwerk der Sprachverirrung) In this matriarchy there seems to be no love, no closeness, no affection.

The daily newspaper RHEINISCHE POST writes: »Barbara Wachendorff’s staging is malicious, grotesque and fast-moving. The audience gets to see a very physical, lively performance that toys with the crude eroticism prevalent among the women…«