Domestic violence is increasing sharply. A woman is murdered every ten days in Austria. There are 40 entry bans every day. But where do the first atrocities begin? Actors Kristina Sprenger and Manuel Witting hold up a mirror to couples with the play ‘Little Marital Crimes’.
“Kron”:They will both be on stage in Oberschützen and Mattersburg on March 2 and 3 in the tragicomedy “Little Marital Crimes” by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. What is this play about?
Manuel Witting: It’s about infidelity, deceit, suspicion and a cynical view of what people do and do to each other in a relationship, even though they claim to love each other. It’s also about how relationships change. And time can become a danger and trust corrupts.
Kristina Sprenger: Specifically, it is about the married couple Gilles and Lisa, who seem happy until Gilles loses his memory in an accident. When Lisa brings him home after a stay in the hospital, she tells him what he is like and what he used to be like. You don’t know who is fooling whom. Lisa wonders whether she is merely covering up or downplaying the past to mold her husband into what she would like him to be. In short: not everything is what it seems. The bottom line is that you have to work on yourself to be happy with someone else. And: that comfort and routine are the biggest enemies of any relationship.
Source: Krone
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