If awards were given for riffs and effects, Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice might just sweep the prizes. A family of means gathers on Christmas Eve and bickers. The family has secrets soon to be revealed. An uninvited guest shows up. He isn’t who he seems. Narration/stage direction happens on stage...
If awards were given for riffs and effects, Roland Schimmelpfennig’sA family of means gathers on Christmas Eve and bickers. The family has secrets soon to be revealed. An uninvited guest shows up. He isn’t who he seems. Narration/stage direction happens on stage. Characters take turns delivering narration/stage direction. Action switches between past and present. Action is always heightened. Action is comic…. until the dark turn takes hold.
Married couple Albert and Bettina are reluctantly hosting Bettina’s mother Corina for Christmas Eve dinner. Tensions are high as the unlikeable three bicker, push buttons and play defense with each other. But as Corrina, Bettina and later Konrad become smitten with Rudolph's piano playing and his rousing speeches about legacy, ancestry, beauty and aspiration, Albert becomes increasingly uncomfortable.
So why doesn't he do anything about it? Why does Albert simply look on in horror, popping pill after pill to try and numb the fear? Why is he so helpless in the face of what he knows is dangerously wrong? And how has this evil been let into the house without the others realizing it?
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