Eldorado

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Antons got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, theres a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So whats he doing forging his bosss signature And why has his wife crushed her hands under the piano lid Painfully funny scenes of married bliss in meltdown and the insistent presence, on their screens and in their dreams, of the West's far-flung and half-forgotten wars Eldorado asks what happens when the drive for success carries us past our coping point.

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Eldorado (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne 2006): 'A mad-mouse ride' * The Australian *
A cryptically fascinating dystopian drama. * Three stars - Michael Billington, Guardian *
A sophisticated piece of drama. * Public Reviews *
A cold, clever play, - it's still a web of evocative images. * Stage *

Author Bio

Marius von Mayenburg studied medieval literature in Munich and Berlin, and playwriting at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1998 he began a collaboration with Thomas Ostermeier at the Baracke at Deutsches Theater in Berlin and, from 1999, at Schaubhne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. He was awarded the Kleist Prize for young dramatists for his first play Fireface (1997) and the Frankfurt Writers Foundation Prize (1998). His plays have been translated into over thirty languages and performed both in Germany and abroad. Since 2009 Marius von Mayenburg has directed several plays in Berlin and Munich. Alongside his activities as playwright, dramaturg and director, Mayenburg has translated plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp and William Shakespeare.