ABOUT PERFORMANCE
Lete is an ordinary man. Attracted by fame, he enters the marketing machinery that reshapes him and uses him as it sees fit. When he loses himself, all that remains of Lette is an attractive empty shell that can only serve as a toy.
The play The Ugly One is written in such a way that it can also take place under quite realistic circumstances. Stilisation is a sprout of the magic of theatre that needs to be nurtured with care and carried out with consistency in order for it to be able to develop properly and produce proper meanings.
I want to make shows I would like to see myself. I perceive myself as a director as the first viewer of a future show, someone who needs to be fiercely bothered by something, whose stances should be questioned and whose secure voyer position in the dark of the auditorium needs to be put into jeopardy. In this regard, Mayenburg's plays provide a precious material for creating some truly irritating shows. I hope that our result will be worthy of this extraordinarily potent material.
Marija Krstic.
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ABOUT AUTHOR
MARIUS VON MAYENBURG (born 1972 in Munich)
One of the most frequently staged new German playwrights. He studied Germanic Philology at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1997 he won the Heinrich von Kleist Scholarship for young playwrights, following the great success of his play Fireface (Feuergesicht). The play was staged at Munich’s Kammerspiele. The following year he won the City of Frankfurt Writer’s Foundation Prize. DT Baracke Theatre, was the first to stage a Mayenburg play (Harmaan) invites him to be their associate dramaturg for a year. Since 1999, Meyenburg works as a dramaturg and playwright with Berliner Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Along with success of his plays in German theatres, they are translated and staged all over the world, in the UK, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Hungary, France, Bulgaria, Romania, Australia, Japan.
His plays staged in Serbia include: Fireface (directed by Stevan Bodroza, Beton hala teatar, premierred at BELEF on July 12 2001) and Parasites (directed by Anja Susa, Beton hala teatar/FDU/Goethe Institut, premierred at Mata Milosevic Stage on October 31 2003), both translated by Jelena Kostic. The play Parasites was published by CENPI, Belgrade, 2003.
Other plays by Marius von Mayenburg include: Fräulein Danzer (1996), Monsterdämmerung (1997), Feuergesicht (1997), Parasiten (Paraziti, 1999), Das kalte Kind (2002), Eldorado (2004), Turista (2005), Augenlicht (2006), Der Häßliche (Ugly, 2007), Der Hund, die Nacht und das Messer (2008).
Marius von Mayenburg lives in Berlin.
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