Ellen Babić

Astrid, a teacher, has a meeting with the head, Balderkamp. It seems an innocuous appointment. But is it? Klara has her doubts. Klara is Astrid’s partner and has been for years. She was once Astrid’s pupil. They met at the school where Astrid still works as a teacher. Balderkamp is her line manager and now wants an informal meeting to discuss a professional matter. He visits the two women at home: a bottle of wine is opened. Matters develop rapidly in an unhealthy mix of the personal and the professional. The three adults immediately find themselves on very thin ice.

In »Ellen Babić«, Marius von Mayenburg, who has long been one of the leading playwrights of his generation, has written a highly amusing play about the dynamics of power and its abuse. A psychological thriller about the emotional debts we accumulate and cannot shake off, that follow us through time like ghosts.