Radio plays

"Robinson and Juliet, or The Art of Making Yourself Completely Miserable".

Author: Heinz-Dieter Herbig (FRG 1951)
Genre: Radio play, Comedy
Production: NDR 1988
Director: Götz Naleppa
Length: 72 min.

Contributors:
Briggs: Lutz Mackensy
Grey gander: Werner Eichhorn
Julia: Ute Willing
Lady: Barbara Nüsse
Husband: Diether Krebs

Content:
Robi Briggs, a writer with money problems, founds a 'School of Love'. It is to teach: 'You must please the one who is to fall in love with you ... (and) the prerequisite ... is ... that you please yourself'. So the man knows, even about the woman ('She hides her charms, hints at them, and plays with male sensuality like a yoyo.'), has taste, not spontaneity, and he can talk; he is, so to speak, a salesman in matters of love. Business is booming, but then a misfortune befalls him: he finds his Juliet, or rather she finds him. The 'laws of love' are directed against the teacher himself. It is to be feared that in future he will 'chirp' (male, of course) and 'lay his heart at her feet'.
A cheerfully ironic and fast-paced radio play about a touching man.

Comments: A school of confusion in 4 rounds and an epilogue


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