Blind

In the organizer's words:

by Lot Vekemans
translated from the Dutch by
Eva M. Pieper and Alexandra Schmiedebach

The action in this play by the most frequently performed Dutch author Lot Vekemans takes place in the house of the retired former engineer Richard,
located in a gated neighborhood for the anxious rich. Richard's daughter Helen also has to show her ID to the armed security guards when she drops off some shopping for her father. Given how infrequently Helen visits her father, the security guards can hardly know her. Helen tells her father openly that she doesn't like coming and certainly doesn't want to look after him. He asks her to do so because he will soon go blind and for some reason he has also fired his housekeeper ...

Can Helen overcome her rejection of her authoritarian, libertarian father? Can Richard come out of his own skin at this existential point in his life?
come out of his own skin? This is the starting point for a similarly exciting discourse with crystal-clear, brilliant dialog as in Vekemans' last play "Gift", which was shown here at the 2014 Hamburg Theatre Festival. Vekemans once again succeeds in creating a grandiose family drama, an exciting confrontation between two generations. She also tells a story about racism and creates a metaphor for the current isolation of Europe.

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