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When a lonely woman in her thirties realizes that the years are passing her by without a partner, she desperately tries to get herself a man by various means. Liselotte in May is a bittersweet absurdist comedy about a gentle, lonely heart.
Love is blind … and in this case melodramatic, depressing, paranoid, clumsy, deranged and disturbed. Liselotte has been caring for an elderly lady for a great many years, and now that her ward is deceased, she is looking for a love to care for her. But this, she finds, is not as simple as she thinks. Through a succession of encounters both funny, poignant and downright bizarre, Liselotte skips, wanders and stumbles through the world of dating, coming across a widower, a plumber, a poet and a tramp among others. Her enthusiasm to find true love is matched only by the misfortune of her suitors. Liselotte discovers that finding love is one thing; holding onto it is something else entirely.
Zsolt Pozsgai’s play, widely produced in Europe and now available in English translation, is a bittersweet absurdist comedy about a gentle, lonely heart.
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Cast:
Liselotte - Rita Sigmond
Man - Alex Gatstramb
Director:
Zsolt Vatany
Playwright:
Zsolt Pozsgai
The play is 70min long, without interval.
Zsolt Pozsgai: Award-winning dramatist Zsolt Pozsgai’s plays have been seen worldwide. He is a winner of the European Drama Award, and three-time winner of the Hungarian Playwright’s Competition. Liselotte in May, his most performed play, premiered at the Deutsches Theater, Budapest, Hungary, in May, 2002 and has since been seen in over 22 staging from New York City to Geneva, Switzerland to Vancouver, Canada. By the end of 2014, 57 of Pozsgai’s pieces, including tragedies, comedies, farces, and plays with music, had been performed in 87 theatres. He has also worked widely as a stage director, and as a writer and director for film and TV.
