by Heinrich von Kleist

Marthe Rull goes to court. Last night, her clay jug was broken after an assault in her daughter Eve's room. Her fiancé Ruprecht was left behind, but he firmly claims that someone else destroyed the jug. And Eve, who has to listen to wild insults and is suddenly suspected of having cheated on her fiancé shortly before he was called up to the army. The case is to be solved by village magistrate Adam, under the close watch of Walter, who has arrived unexpectedly. Adam himself is the perpetrator, who pursued Eve to her room under false pretenses in order to force her into sexual favors ...

The directing duo Katharina Schmidt and Roman Konieczny are staging their first production at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and questioning Kleist's "comedy", first performed in 1808, for its topicality in times of #MeToo.