Am Ziel
An elderly widow and her daughter make their annual trip to Katwijk and invite a young playwright to join them; his arrival unsettles their established relationship.
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An elderly widow and her daughter make their annual trip to Katwijk and invite a young playwright to join them; his arrival unsettles their established relationship.
Touring actor Bruscon stops with his family in the small village of Utzbach to perform his own play, The Wheel of History. He tyrannizes his family during rehearsal and boasts of his artistry, but the performance fails when a storm damages the inn and the audience leaves.
On the day of Jewish professor Josef Schuster’s funeral, his family and household discuss his life and death. After returning from exile to Vienna, he could no longer bear the noise he associated with the 1938 Nazi rally at Heldenplatz and killed himself. Through their conversations, the play confronts Austria’s continuing antisemitism and denial of its past.
After an anarchist assassination attempt kills the president’s ally and the first lady’s dog, the president and his wife recover at the palace while their son is suspected of aiding the anarchists. On a later diplomatic visit to Portugal, the president entertains his mistress; he is assassinated offstage before a final lying-in-state scene.
An elderly widow and her daughter make their annual trip to Katwijk and invite a young playwright to join them; his arrival unsettles their established relationship.
Touring actor Bruscon stops with his family in the small village of Utzbach to perform his own play, The Wheel of History. He tyrannizes his family during rehearsal and boasts of his artistry, but the performance fails when a storm damages the inn and the audience leaves.
On the day of Jewish professor Josef Schuster’s funeral, his family and household discuss his life and death. After returning from exile to Vienna, he could no longer bear the noise he associated with the 1938 Nazi rally at Heldenplatz and killed himself. Through their conversations, the play confronts Austria’s continuing antisemitism and denial of its past.
After an anarchist assassination attempt kills the president’s ally and the first lady’s dog, the president and his wife recover at the palace while their son is suspected of aiding the anarchists. On a later diplomatic visit to Portugal, the president entertains his mistress; he is assassinated offstage before a final lying-in-state scene.