Marius von Mayenburg
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How far will you go for what you believe? Benjamin won’t do swimming at school. His mother thinks it’s drugs or he’s got body issues. But Benjamin has found God and mixed-sex swimming lessons offend him. Fundamentalism and tolerance clash in this funny, provocative play by leading German playwright, Marius von Mayenburg. Martyr considers how far we should go in accommodating another’s faith, and when we should take a stand for our own opposing beliefs.
Mayenburg: Three Plays
A nocturnal flaneur gets caught in a nightmare of murder and desire ( The Dog, the Night and the Knife ), a canny businessman is suddenly brought low ( Eldorado ) and two couples get tangled in absurdly comic partner relationships ([i]Perplex</i.). In Marius von Mayenburg’s plays, dreams and reality are very closely linked and social existence is an endangered construction.
Eldorado
Anton’s got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, there’s a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So what’s he doing forging his boss’s signature? And why has his wife crushed her hands under the piano lid? Painfully funny scenes of married bliss in meltdown and the insistent presence, on their screens and in their dreams, of the West's far-flung and half-forgotten wars – Eldorado asks what happens when the drive for success carries us past our coping point.