Light game

Kathie, Kattrin, Katharina - the same woman or always a different one? Sometimes she is ecstatic, sometimes assertive, sometimes distant, and sometimes full of devotion. Botho Strauss unfolds her changing temperaments and attitudes towards life in ten concise scenes that gradually come together as a whole. Whether love as a business model during the financial crisis, love as an eternally unfulfilled longing, or love that has noticeably diminished after many years of marriage: Few authors manage, like Strauss, to explore the depths of coupledom in all its comedy and place it in a societal context. Between dreams and wakefulness, the differences between the sexes are no longer measured as a battleground but appear as a lightly floating, tenderly melancholic game of constant misalignment. It is no coincidence that the text states at one point: "The matter between man and woman.".