Radio plays

"A winter under the table"

Author: Roland Topor (France 1938 - 1997)
Genre: Radio play
Production: NDR/MDR 1995
Director: Götz Naleppa
Music: Susanne Schulz
Length: 71 min.
Translation: Piekenbrock, Marietta (from French)
Sound and technology: Kühnke, Christian (sound) , Berger, Christine (editing)

Contributors:
Florence Michalon: Christin Marquitan
Gritzka: Christian Redl
Dragomir: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Marc Thyl: Matthias Ponnier
Raymonde Pouce: Catrin Striebeck

Content:
His Mademoiselle Michalon is truly enchanting, says Dragomir, her lodger. The emigrant is a shoemaker and is happy to have found such a favourable place to stay. The fact that he has to restrict his freedom of movement somewhat, well, that's just what life in a foreign country entails. However, Dragomir is compensated by the place of residence that Mademoiselle has assigned to him. It's right under her desk and sometimes right between her thighs. With the best will in the world, the rules of etiquette that otherwise characterise a normal tenancy cannot always be observed, for example when Mademoiselle Michalon loses a button. According to the author's good news, the seemingly rigid system of top and bottom can sometimes be taken by storm by a poor immigrant. The author provides the subversive instructions in his imaginative grotesque.


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