World Voices: MARIUS VON MAYENBURG (Germany)

Join us for an evening with one of Germany's most celebrated playwright, dramaturg and translator Marius von Mayenburg for a reading of his new play ELLEN B.

About the play:

ELLEN B. is a taut psychological thriller about power, desire, and shattered certainties. When Astrid, a teacher, invites her boss home for an informal evening, a troubling allegation surfaces: something happened between Astrid and one of her students — Ellen Babić. As past and present collide, the principal starts to question the nature Astrid's relationship with her younger partner Klara, while Astrid is starting to expose patriarchal structures at work. And the question of what really happened proves impossible to answer.

Marius von Mayenburg (Germany) is a playwright, director and translator. Born in Munich, he studied playwriting at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin. He was a dramaturg and writer in residence at the Schaubühne Berlin. His plays (such as THE UGLY ONE, FIREFACE, A PIECE OF PLASTIC,) are translated into more than 30 languages, have been successfully produced worldwide at the Schaubühne Berlin, the Young Vic, London, National Theatre Oslo,  the Royal Court Theatre, Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris , La Scala, Paris among many others and have won several awards. As a translator he has translated works by William Shakespeare  and Oscar Wilde, as well as contemporary plays by writers such as Martin Crimp, Alan Ayckbourn and Sarah Kane into German.

His most recent trilogy consists of the plays EX, ELLEN BABIĆ and EGAL, which have all been premiered internationally at theaters such as Rikstheatre in Stockholm, Sweden, the National Theater of Reykjavik, the Burgtheater Vienna.

As a director, Marius von Mayenburg has worked at the Schaubühne Berlin, Residenztheater in Munich, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Riksteater Stockholm, Nationaltheater Oslo among others.

Marius von Mayenburg © Kristina Popov