Herr Schuster kauft eine Straße

Do Not Pass Go

(Herr Schuster kauft eine Straße)

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4F / 1M

A «liberal leftist’s» garden. Mr. Schuster, his wife, her sister, the mother-in-law, and the new au pair, await the arrival of one final guest. Until then, they kill time by playing monopoly – a game whose point it is to «drive others into insolvency», as the sharp-witted, politically active mother-in-law remarks. But insolvency begins, even before first roll of the dice. The younger generation’s perfect world (row house, kids, well-paying jobs) had always seemed suspect to the mother-in-law – has civil disobedience completely been extinct? All the while, her daughters dread the memories of their childhood (communes, protest marches, no-nukes posters). Another principled debate about morals and ideals seems unavoidable. While there is a frightening rustle in the bushes, Mr. Schuster develops his own apocalyptic scenarios in his head. He becomes his own spectator, surrounded by three bickering women - and a silent fourth one, the au pair, who questions his existence in a totally unforeseen way …
Do Not Pass Go is a multi-layered comedy of manners, where Alan Ayckbourn meets David Lynch meets Stephen King.

World premiere
25.09.2010 Nationaltheater Mannheim (Director: Mirja Biel with Joerg Zboralski)

Translations
Czech Pan Schuster hraje Monopoly (Translator: Magdalena Štulcová)
English Do Not Pass Go (Translator: Neil Fleming)
French Ne passez pas Go (Translators: Anissa Lahyane & Thomas Lussier)
Polish Pan Szuster kupuje ulicę (Translator: Iwona Uberman)
Polish premiere 19.07.2019 Teatr Wybrzeze, Gdánsk (Director: Tomasz Cymerman)

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