Stolz und Vorurteil* (*oder so)

In the organizer's words:

Comedy by Isobel McArthur based on Jane Austen
German by Silke Pfeiffer

Five maids retell Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice", published in 1813. They embody not only the unmarried daughters of the Bennet family, but almost all the characters. What at first seems like a successful trick to bring a novel to the stage soon proves to be a great piece of stage adaptation magic that opens up a special path in Jane Austen's work. The maids create an ironic distance from the action. They take the space to sing their favorite songs or talk about work that is not described in the novels. After all, they are the ones who make sure that the guest beds in the story are made up and the food is provided - and that absolutely everyone has seen them naked before.

In doing so, they retell a story that seems familiar in a fast-paced and amusing way: Mrs. Bennet knows that her daughters will be left empty-handed if Mr. Bennet dies due to sexist inheritance laws. When she learns that the rich and single Charles Bingley is coming to live in the neighborhood, she does everything she can to marry him off to one of them. But the Bennet sisters long not only for a livelihood, but also for true love and self-determination.