Next Up: GUN LOVE at Theater Neumarkt

If you have a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it needs to go off at some point. Chekhov’s dramatic principle about guns is followed to the letter in Jennifer Clement’s superb new novel.
«There are a great number of guns in this book. Yet there’s also a great deal of love here; amid the violence and hopelessness of gun-crazed contemporary America, humanity breaks through: Margot France is living in a broken-down car with her 14-year-old daughter, Pearl. A teenager when she got pregnant, she left her well-to-do family in disgrace, fleeing to this place in the middle of nowhere. She brings a sensibility at odds with received notions of trailer park America: Margot and Pearl dine off Limoges china, a family possession, and, in one striking set piece, Margot revives a long-submerged talent on the piano to play Rachmaninov in her local church. But destiny and the gun aren’t far away, in the charismatic but satanic form of Eli Redmond, whom Margot falls for, with disastrous results.» The Guardian

Jennifer Clement, president of P.E.N. International, fights for the freedom of expression on behalf of authors all over the world. Her lyric voice is adapted for stage by Tom Schneider whom you might know as the director of «Bilder deiner grossen Liebe» at Theater Neumarkt.
The American-Swiss actress Lucy Wirth presents GUN LOVE in American English (with German subtitles).