Apropos Schmerz (Denken Sie an etwas Schönes)

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Play

by Leo Lorena Wyss | commissioned work | world premiere
In German language

"Why don't you go jogging again? It's good for the psyche," says the doctor and dismisses the patient without further examination. Leo Lorena Wyss, this year's resident playwright, tells of the disregarded pain of female bodies with a great deal of humor and sensuality. Anna Blume sits in the waiting room. Other women around her. The psychiatrist in the Hawaiian shirt pushes his glasses back onto his nose. A tired chorus of female figures in the waiting room looks up as Anna steps out of the treatment room again. Who's next? We follow Anna on her odyssey through the bureaucratic absurdities and prejudices of the consulting rooms and examinations. Leo Lorena Wyss, born in 1997, writes about the experiences of a person read as female in a healthcare system that is by no means objective, but biased: Vaccines and medicines are still exclusively adapted to biologically male bodies. The body read as female remains a gap in the system. In this way, ignorance and misdiagnoses of these bodies are perpetuated to this day. What does this disregard mean? How can a language be found for pain that is so beyond words? Leo Lorena Wyss was awarded the author prize at the 40th Heidelberg Stückemarkt for her coming-of-age play "Blaupause". The play "Muttertier" recently premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna. This content has been machine translated.