seven cooks, four soldiers and three sophias
A particular cosmos almost constantly at war
This play has a distinctively specific structure, a particular playfulness, it connects history and fiction. The script is dedicated to three historical personalities: Sophia Magdalene Scholl, a German political activist, Sofia Lvovna Perovskajeva, a Russian “terrorist” and Marie-Sophie Germain, a French scientist. Destinies of three exceptional women who all left a significant mark in the history of humankind. A German, a Russian and a French woman all lived in different centuries and countries, but they shared similar destinies and the same given name. They were fearless activists and intellectuals who spent their whole lives fighting violence, ignorance and inequalities of all kinds. They all paid a high and cruel price for their beliefs. (Scholl and Perovskaja were both sentenced to death.) In a unique universe real-life information is spoken about these personalities whilst the play remains faithful to the realms of its field: fiction. This is a story about a tight chain of friends: passiveness, fear of the different, execution, war and finally history and the past.
- No. of roles
- 14
- No. of male roles
- 4
- No. of female roles
- 10
Script extract
the peevish one
has the smart one not tired of talking yet? who’s even listening to her?
oy, nobody’s listening to you
the fat one
oh dear, and now the fool has entered, too
today’s a merry day and this cake … mmm
the huffy one
she says with her mouth full of cake for sophia’s birthday
the fat one
i say with mouth full of delicious cake
the pensive one
butter and chocolate
the dainty one
namely, the stage was graced by … another young woman