Der Liebling (The Favourite)
BY Svenja Viola Bungarten DIRECTED BY Anita Vulesica
premiere on 14.03.2025
synopsis
The giant corporations Always and Never are vying for a monopoly position on the market and to invent the next innovative feminine hygiene product. CEOs Franka and Bettina want to buy up each other's companies and get at each other's throats. Their children vie for the inheritance and the affection of their mothers, while their confidants, consultants and interns scent their own career opportunities. Complex intrigues and affairs unfold, as do unexpected alliances.
Inspired by pop culture references such as the films The Favourite, The Devil Wears Prada and the series Succession, playwright Svenja Viola Bungarten examines the ways in which power and solidarity play out among women. What are the costs of success? In what ways do women contribute to patriarchy? What does power do to feminism, and what kind of power does feminism need?
The text will be staged by Anita Vulesica, who has already explored the complex of issues surrounding work and wages in a profound yet absurd way in her production of Georges Perec's Die Gehaltserhöhung at the Deutsches Theater in the 2023/24 season.
premiere
14.03.2025
cast and creative
- directed by Anita Vulesica
- Bühne Henrike Engel
- Kostüme Janina Brinkmann
- Musik Carolina Bigge
- Choreografie Mirjam Klebel
- Video Phillip Hohenwarter
- Dramaturgie Lilly Busch