Seymour
Seymour

Summary/Abstract: Anne Lepper is a German playwright born in 1978 in Essen. Seymour, her drama, can be read in Eszter Biró’s translation in our issue: the world premiere of the text was in 2012 at Schauspiel Hannover, and in 2016 Balázs Bodolai directed a reading performance of the text at the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj. Seymour tells the story of five obese children who participate in a special diet-cure in a high-mountain sanatorium following the precise rules of Dr. Bärfuss. They keep hoping that the doctor will finally appear to certify the success of the cure and they can go home. But this never happens, and when they get stuck forever on the mountain-top of their desired transformation, they get a message from their parents that they have been replaced by slimmer children. Lepper’s grotesque morality targets the perception of the individual in a consumer society, through the ideal of the acceptable, tolerable and useful body. Although the characters are children, their words and problems reflect the world of adults: the endless and fruitless struggle for the ideal, the desire to meet expectations​, the basic emotions of lovelessness and exchangeability.

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