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theatre HaDivadlo , Brno

2002

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Synopsis: The Minach Trilogy is a loosely connected set of three one-act plays, existentially harmonised probes into the intimacy of human relations seen from the point of view of a woman. Minach, the first part, is made of a dialogue (really a monologue) of the Sister with her silent Brother, and a conversation of the Sister with her lover Ludwig. The siblings are bound by incest and a shared guilt for the death of their parents. Their lives are so bound together that one cannot exist without the other. The Brother bullies the Sister through his silence. The relationship between Brother and Sister is devastated by the presence of Ludwig "the man from next door" who is visiting the Sister. Ludwig is for her the only and last opportunity to begin to live a normal life, butthe Sister does not show it. The second part, Head or Tails? is a fantasising little game. Here the Woman is here that which determines what will happen, and how. She has at her disposition, Man - the puppet. By naming the Man differently, she creates his various characters. At first she creates Harold, and when she is tired of his docility, she changes him into Edgar, but not even he is without problems, and so, discontented, she creates a new man. The figure of Ludwig emerges. The Future of My I is a dialogue between the mortally sick Woman 1, whose husband has moved her to the country, and a paid nurse, Woman 2, who is leased by the man until the patient dies. The destinies of the two women encounter each other, on the one hand anxiety from the ending of life, longing still to belong to her husband, and on the other a promising future, that she will maybe begin a new life with the money earned nursing the sick.