She herself lives in a spacious old apartment, generously offering shelter to Elias, a practical philosopher who has chosen to live entirely without possessions. Her friend Fanny, also a journalist and recently separated from her husband, has likewise found refuge there. With similar generosity, Agnes turns a blind eye to the groupies who flock around her partner, Sascha. Yet deep down, she dreams of escape—of leaving it all behind and moving to the countryside. For she sees all too clearly the small and large (self-)deceptions with which her friends and acquaintances delude themselves about the shortcomings of their lives.
Fräulein Agnes, nominated for the Mülheim Theatre Prize in 2018, is a brilliant, linguistically rich comedy inspired by Molière’s The Misanthrope. With dazzling wit and razor-sharp dialogue, it explores the price and consequences of uncompromising honesty.
starring: Katharina Solzbacher, Silke Heise, Joscha Eißen, Maximilian Herzogenrath, Natascha Weigang / Sophie Juliana Pollack, Lilly-Marie Vogler, Michael Haake, Max Roenneberg
director: Andreas Merz Raykov
set- and costume design: Veronika Bleffert
music: Joscha Eißen
dramaturgy: Daniel Grünauer
photos: Tom Neumeier
Miss Agnes, Kricheldorf
Theater Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
„Truth! Is ! Reasonable! For! Mankind!“
Agnes, once a successful debut novelist and now a culture-critical blogger, has grown weary of everything—and everyone. Above all, she despises the pseudo-intellectual cultural elite who, under the guise of being immersive and transmedial, performative and radically unsettling, claim to expose the lies of bourgeois life while embodying those very lies themselves. Agnes ruthlessly unmasks them all; even her son Orlando and his musical ambitions are not spared from her relentless criticism.