The Cat Eleonore
Free Theatre presents The Cat Eleonore, the first English language translation and production of the award-winning play by Caren Jess.
Eleonore is a 40-year-old real estate agent who one day realises that she is actually a cat.
Financially independent and single, nothing stands in the way of her transformation. She has a cat-fur sewn for her and gradually cuts herself off from human social contacts.
In conversations with Dr. Wildbruch, a therapist who is fascinated by her case, it becomes clear that Eleonore’s thinking and feeling also increasingly resemble those of a cat.
At the same time, Eleonore is caught in the stark predicament of actually living as a cat. In the end, she loses her ability to speak, and her life is confined to hunting mice in the garden and sleeping.
Playwright Caren Jess won the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis and the Mülheimer Theatertage Audience Award for the play in 2023.
Eleonore is a 40-year-old real estate agent who one day realises that she is actually a cat.
Financially independent and single, nothing stands in the way of her transformation. She has a cat-fur sewn for her and gradually cuts herself off from human social contacts.
In conversations with Dr. Wildbruch, a therapist who is fascinated by her case, it becomes clear that Eleonore’s thinking and feeling also increasingly resemble those of a cat.
At the same time, Eleonore is caught in the stark predicament of actually living as a cat. In the end, she loses her ability to speak, and her life is confined to hunting mice in the garden and sleeping.
Playwright Caren Jess won the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis and the Mülheimer Theatertage Audience Award for the play in 2023.
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