Die Freiheit einer Frau

“Great theater that is both fun and thought-provoking, hilarious and tragic at the same time. That has a lot to do with us, our coexistence. And with our vision of the future.”

“There is Monique Bellegueule, whose life of shattered dreams – as a wife at the side of an aggressive alcoholic and as a mother of several children who could not or would not take care of herself, without a job and without money, humiliated and trapped – had already become ”a single shrug of the shoulders” at the age of 23. And then there is her queer son Eddy, a “class refugee out of revenge” because he is ashamed of his family. It is an angry story of alienation through politically enforced social class differences. It becomes a melancholy story of rapprochement when Monique finally dares to take the step of departure and thus the ascent to freedom in Paris, and with her all the other women in Florian Seufert’s video images. (…) Stormy applause.”

“Not only because of the enriching references to ‘Nora’, ‘Die Freiheit einer Frau’ also inspires.”