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FELICIA ZELLER |
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Nationality: 1970 Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Born 1970 in Stuttgart, Germany. With an oevre of 16 plays written in twenty years, Zeller is now one of the most popular female playwrights of her generation in Germany.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Felicia Zeller
Kaspar & The Sea of Houses (Kaspar Hauser Meer) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lower Ossington Theatre, Toronto | 04 Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | twinwerks / SummerWorks Theatre Festival, Toronto | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134208 | |||
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Genre: | translation drama/comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Felicia Zeller. Available through: AO International www.aoiagency.com. First Production Co-Directed by Birgit Schreyer Duarte and David Jansen | |||||
Synopsis: | Three exhausted Children's Aid workers fight against an ever-growing pile of cases: babies must be removed from garbage-filled apartments, a feuding immigrant family reined in, the return of seven kids to their abusive parents prevented and single mothers taught how to run their households. To catch up, they speak in truncated language, piling new thoughts upon unfinished ones, only to get stuck even deeper in the pitfalls of paragraphs, moral obligation, failed judgment and hidden self-interests. Helpers are bound to turn into culprits. It becomes increasingly challenging for the social workers to keep the voices of others out of their own, fragmented speeches. Times and places collapse into each other, cause and effect become one, borders between clients and caretakers begin to blur. Felicia Zeller wrote Kaspar Hauser Meer as a commission for Freiburg Theatre in 2008, as a response to the so-called "Kevin case"-the discovery of a two-year old boy's body in his stepfather's fridge. The public had been particularly appalled by this case when it became known that Child Welfare had been monitoring the family for a while and was aware of the child's unsafe situation. Zeller tackled this sensitive subject not by putting the victims or the offenders in the centre of the action but by zooming in on the many social workers that struggle day by day to prevent such disasters. To this day, the play has received over 30 professional productions across Germany. | |||||
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