Destination
By Thomas Bernhard
Directed by Kathryn
Hunter
Destination
is a hilarious and apocalyptic black farce. It is a ludicrous account
of power and oppression explored through the relationship between a
domineering mother and her enslaved daughter. They live in the shadow
of a once thriving but now crumbling foundry. The annual escape from
this industrial graveyard to their summer retreat is thrown into turmoil
when a young and brilliant playwright is invited to join them. The guilt-ridden
mother struggles to find meaning from her past and to embrace the possibility
of change and revolution in the future, whatever the outcome or cost.
"It
is not enough that a few young people hit a few older ones over the
head... everything needs to be wiped out over night."
Destination
is the English-language premiere of Thomas Bernhard's Am Ziel, arguably
his most audacious and satirical play. Although virtually unknown in
Britain, Bernhard is undisputedly one of Europe's most original contemporary
playwrights. His work mixes the worlds of Kafka, Beckett and Pinter,
creating a uniquely eccentric picture of humanity and the modern world.
Destination
opened on 27 September 2001 at Chapter in Cardiff, and toured the UK
and Spain for six weeks.
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