Dea Loher: Three Plays

Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today This volume brings together three of her plays translated into English Olgas RoomCommunist Jew Revolutionary Lover Mother Olga Benarios story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self Based on real events of the 1930s-40s Dea Lohers gripping first play spans Brazilian revolution and Nazi dictatorship InnocenceA city by the sea 14 people on the edge Illegal immigrants afraid of being arrested for a good deed A philosopher who burns her own books A woman seeking forgiveness for crimes she didnt commit A young married man who finds fulfillment laying out corpses A blind stripper who spends her life being watched by men she cannot see Innocence is a darkly comic panorama of urban restlessness Land Without WordsWar meets art in this intimate parable A painter seeks the perfect image but in K a Middle Eastern city she experiences the effects of war violence and poverty impossible to depict Now she is forced to confront her lifelong beliefs in the value of art and how to deal with her position in the world today Dea Loher is one of Germanys most highly regarded contemporary playwrights Her plays have been translated into over fifteen languages and staged all over the world They include Ttowierung Strangers House Fremdes Haus Adam Geist Innocence Unschuld The Final Fire Das Letzte Feuer Thieves Diebe and Black Lake Am Schwarzen See She has won numerous awards including the Else-Lasker-Schler-Dramatikerpreis 2005 the Bertolt-Brecht-Preis der Stadt Augsburg 2006 and the Berliner Literaturpreis 2009 Currently living in Berlin her most recent work is a novel Bugatti taucht auf David Tushinghams translations include Mr Kolpert The Woman Before Waiting Room Germany Strangers House Royal Court The Golden Dragon Arabian Night Jeff Koons ATC and State of Emergency Gate The