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Maja Zade

MAJA ZADE

  (1972 - )
Nationality:    German
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Literary Agent:    Rosica Colin Ltd  

Maja Zade was born in Germany in 1972, and grew up in Sweden. She studied English Literature at London University and at Queen's University, Canada, then theatre production at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. From 1997-99 she was Senior Reader at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Since 1999, she has been Dramaturg at the Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin. She has translated several plays from Swedish and German into English, including Lars Noren's Blood, Roland Schimmelpfennig's Push up, Falk Richter's God is a DJ, Marius von Mayenburg's Fireface, Eldorado, The Cold Child, The Ugly One, and Moving Target. Her translations from English into German include Caryl Churchill's Drunk enough to say I love you?, Lars von Trier's Dogville, Manderlay, and Breaking the Waves.

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         Beware Of Pity         Blood         Breaking the Waves         Cold Child, The         Dog, The Night and The Knife, The         Dogville         Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?         Eldorado         Fireface         Fraulein Julie         God Is A DJ         Manderlay         Martyr         Perplex         Pigeons, The         Push Up         Stone, The         Trust         Ugly One, The
Beware Of Pity

Synopsis:
Ungeduld des Herzens / Beware of Pity published in 1939, is a tense and claustrophobic account of a young mans slide into a terrible situation, and his inability to extricate himself from it. Its a devastating depiction of honour, love and betrayal, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the rise of anti-Semitism. Simon McBurney's production will be in German and features the Schaubuhnes ensemble of actors. Young soldier Hofmiller is invited to Baron Kekesfalvas castle. The soiree is a success: Hofmiller manages to entertain with one amusing anecdote after another. Inebriated by his accomplishment, he asks Edith, the hosts daughter, for a dance. But Edith blanches. Hofmiller recognises he has committed a faux pas, but only when the girl9s cousin explains that Edith is paralised does he comprehend the extent of his offence and flees the castle. The following morning he sends flowers and Edith retaliates with an invitation to tea. Soon, Hofmiller is a daily guest at the castle, not noticing that the mentally fragile Edith has fallen desperately in love with him. When Hofmiller understands the truth, he proposes marriage, but once Edith realises that this has only happened out of pity, her initial delight mutates into a despairing rage

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by Stefan Zweig In a version by Simon McBurney, James Yeatman, Maja Zade and Complicite

1st Produced:
Schaubuhne, Berlin     Feb 2016

Organisations:
Theatre de Complicite

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Blood

Synopsis:
Lars Noren's 1995 play is a strange and challenging commentary on the inhumanity of contemporary political conflicts. His message is that modern war is so horrible that it warps its survivors permanently, a point he underlines by breaking many of the unwritten rules of psychological Drama.
Karen Fricker, the Guardian

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Original Playwright - Lars Noren. Premiered At Denmark's Betty Nansen Teatret in 1995

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Methuen Drama, London, 2003   

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Breaking the Waves

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Cold Child, The

Synopsis:
Werner and Silke relationship has soured. the only way that Lena can cope with her parents is to get drunk. Tine finds love in the women's toilets.

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Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg from "Das Kalte Kind"

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Translation. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Dog, The Night and The Knife, The

Dog, The Night and The Knife, The
A nightmarish flight through a city, in which all men and women have striking similarities: policeman and doctor, criminal and lawyer, patient and nurse. And all of them are after M. Just as the night seems done, and dawn is coming, M faces the irrevocable choice between dangerous love with a zombie, and the lonely hunt with a dog.

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Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg

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Schaubuhne Lehniner Platz, Berlin     25 May 2008

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Dogville

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Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?

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Eldorado

Eldorado
Anton's got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, there's a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So what's he doing forging his boss's 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.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg. UK premiere: Arcola, London 26 May 2014

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Schaubuhne Lehniner Platz, Berlin     11 Dec 2004

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Fireface

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Marius von Mayenburg's incendiary piece of stage poetry about incest and murder is like Fassbinder doing Ian McEwan's Cement Garden. It features a nuclear fainily disintegrating for no particularly good reason. Mum and Dad are perfectly cool, even if Dad spends too much time quoting atrocities from the daily paper and even If Mum insists on washing herself Inunodestly in front of the children - and it's the children that this play is all about. Olga is desperate to fill out her boob tube and not so much lose as destroy her virginity. Little brother Kurt, meanwhile, fmds puberty rudely reversing his desire to return to the womb. Olga's response is to fool around with Kurt and get her hands on the first available bloke, Paul. Paul Is a football-shirted youth with a motorbike who warns that he is also a decent, sensitive soul. But Kurt is a slower burning fuse and, like any good, seif-disrespecting teenager, he turns his rising hormonal rage into dangerous, customised nihilism.

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Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg

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Fraulein Julie

Synopsis:
Strindberg's tragedy is reimagined for the multimedia age as theatrical performance and live filming techniques converge, lending fresh cinematic perspective to a classic story. Aristocratic Julie and Jean, a servant in her household, are entangled in a sexually charged game. But as their dangerous pursuit of one another escalates, Strindberg's play finds a new focus. For it is Jean's fiancee, a cook of few words, who is given a voice in this moving adaptation that uses real-time film and sound effects to track the life-changing events through Kristin's eyes.

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After August Strindberg, a version by Katie Mitchell, translated by Maja Zade presented in the German language with subtitles

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Schaubuhne Berlin

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God Is A DJ

Synopsis:
takes reality TV, techno society and our lust for 15 minutes of fame to its ultimate conclusion, with a young couple who have turnes their whole lives into performance art.

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Original Playwright - Falk Richter

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Manderlay

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Martyr

Martyr
How far will you go for what you believe? Benjamin won't do swimming at school. His mother thinks it's drugs or he's got body issues. But Benjamin has found God and mixed-sex swimming lessons offend him. Fundamentalism and tolerance clash in this funny, provocative play by leading German playwright, Marius von Mayenburg. Martyr considers how far we should go in accommodating another's faith, and when we should take a stand for our own opposing beliefs

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Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg

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Unicorn / Actors Touring Company

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Perplex

Perplex
Taking inspiration from Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, as well as the pens of Stoppard, Nietzsche and Beckett, influential writer Marius von Mayenburg has created a fast-paced and very funny piece of contemporary absurdism. The four actors play musical chairs with their characters in an astonishing tumble of scenes. Their characters are patchwork individuals, groping for assurance and security in a constantly disintegrating reality, while slipping on the metaphysical banana peels von Mayenburg throws in their path. A comedy about the capriciousness of reality, one's own identity, and the theatre itself.

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Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg. In german: Schaubuhne Lehniner Platz, Berlin, 20 Nov 2010

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf 1 Theatre, Australia     31 Mar 2014

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Pigeons, The

Synopsis:
I want to get to where you are, except that I'll be happy. And not as fucked up as you.' You want to leave. You'll probably have to stay. You're suffocating at your own Christmas party. You want to know what the problem is. You want to play Scrabble, not have sex. You're in control and you're absolutely terrified. You're being terrorised and no one believes you. Your psychiatrist doesn't even remember who you are. Have you ever dreamed of disappearing without a trace? From one of Germany's finest young playwrights comes an award-winning neurotic puzzle and fierce black comedy that will make you stop and take a second look.

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Original Playwright - David Gieselmann

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ly Productions and Griffin Independent English Language World Premiere

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Push Up

Synopsis:
Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So, they push for it. Push Up is set in a world we all know: the world of work

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig

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Nick Hern Books, London, 2002   

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Stone, The

Synopsis:
"This is our house underneath all this mildew and junk. I know every stone."
1934: A young couple buys the house from a Jewish family, and so the myth begins
1953: the couple's daughter discovers the stone
1973: the family returns to claim what's rightfully theirs
1993: the house is back in their possession
As a house passes from owner to owner, and from generation to generation, the secrets buried in the garden and seeping from the walls reveal themselves. Examines the reverberations created by 60 years of German history.

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Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg

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International Playwrights: A Genesis Project

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Trust

Trust
A series of monologues critiquing capitalism from renowned German playwright Falk Richter. Relationships build up and break down in ever shorter time-scales; they become a resource in an increasingly intense competition. Binding, separating. Buying, selling. A picture is presented of human beings who, over the years, have radically intensified modern individuality and celebrated independence as an ideal.

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Original Playwright - Falk Richter

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Ugly One, The

Synopsis:
Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful. the Ugly One is a scalpel sharp comedy on beauty, identity and getting ahead in life

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Original Playwright - Marius Von Mayenburg

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International Playwrights: A Genesis Project

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