ELLEN BABIĆ

Astrid, a teacher, has been living with Klara, her former student, for years. Astrid has invited her boss, the school principal Wolfram Balderkamp. He wanted to discuss something “private” with her, perhaps over a glass of wine. Klara is outraged. Wolfram used to teach at the school back when she was still a student. What if he recognizes her? Besides, the two of them always keep their professional and personal lives neatly “separated” in their relationship. What’s suddenly so urgent that she’s inviting him into their shared apartment? And what about EllenBabić? 

The living room becomes the setting for a psychological thriller. With every glass of wine, “new truths” come to light, old wounds are reopened, certainties are shaken, and longings break through.

Marius von Mayenburg has crafted a gripping chamber drama—part comedy, part bitter satire—about human behavior within the delicate web of interpersonal dependencies and unconscious power dynamics.