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The artist's collective MASKéNADA has announced that Boris C. Motzki's theatrical version of 'Fräulein Else & Leutnant Gustl', based on the novels of Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler, will make a return to Luxembourg at Hôtel Le Place D'Armes from 3 until 6 September 2015.
The revival of the show follows its consistently sold-out performances and critical acclaim in 2014, and was developed from Arthur Schnitzler's 'Leutnant Gustl', published in 1900, and 'Fräulein Else', published in 1924. In both texts, the author dispensed with a conventional narrator and instead described the characters through an inner monologue. 'Else & Gustl' represents the third of Schnitzler's works that director Marion Rothhaar has brought to the stage, beginning with 'Anatol' in 2012.
For the first part, 'Fräulein Else' will be performed at the five star Hôtel Le Place D'Armes, and after an interval 'Leutnant Gustl' will take the audience on a journey in Schnitzler's thinking and feelings, revealing the timeless fears and delusions of the human soul.
'Fräulein Else'
The nineteen-year-old Else is faced with a difficult decision: either she shows herself naked for fifteen minutes to wealthy art dealer Dorsday, or her father, a trust fund-embezzling Viennese lawyer, is ruined. For an entire evening she deliberates, hesitates, and weighs her options. As a last resort there is still a sedative on her hotel bedside table. Thoughts come thick and fast and she knows she has to make a decision. The play witnesses her internal struggle between shame and self-sacrifice, between individuality and social expectations, culminating in her final choice.
'Leutnant Gustl'
After attending an evening concert, Gustl gets into a dispute with a master baker. Being insulted by a socially-inferior citizen comprises the honour of this class-conscious officer, and he sees no other option but to commit suicide. That night, he wanders through the city, torn between shame and suicide as he smells spring's first flowers. The next morning, his decision is made. Schnitzler uses Gustl's thought process to expose the hollowness of the concept of honour and reveal's in one man's portrait the superficiality and suppressed individuality of a human.
Venue: Hôtel le Place d'Armes, 18 Place d'Armes, 1136 Luxembourg
Organiser: MASKéNADA
Price: €20 at standard rate, €8 reduced, and €1.50 with Kulturpass
Reservations: Call 27 48 93 82 or e-mail else@maskenada.lu
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