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Visiting the English Theatre in Giessen (for PhD students only)

This new play by Hugo Hamilton, adapted from his fictionalized memoir of the same title, is set in the Dublin seaside suburb of Dún Laoghaire in the 1950s, and narrates the coming-of-age of young Hanni, a child born to a German mother and an Irish father.

  • Visiting the English Theatre in Giessen (for PhD students only)
  • 2015-07-10T19:30:00+02:00
  • 2015-07-10T21:30:00+02:00
  • This new play by Hugo Hamilton, adapted from his fictionalized memoir of the same title, is set in the Dublin seaside suburb of Dún Laoghaire in the 1950s, and narrates the coming-of-age of young Hanni, a child born to a German mother and an Irish father.
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10.07.2015 von 19:30 bis 21:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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Kleine Bühne Giessen

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“The Speckled People” by Hugo Hamilton

Forbidden to speak English by his severe father, an obsessive advocate of the Irish-language, Hanni grows up between languages, swimming
vertiginously between Irish and German within the household and feeling as if every time he walks out the front door he is “emigrating into  English.”
Language is both a realm of possibility and a prison-house for the young boy, who is barred from friendship with English-speaking children, like an exile in his own country.
He is a living incarnation of “speckled” identity, mixed-up, “Irish on top, and German on bottom,” like the incongruous outfit of Aran sweater and
Lederhosen he wears on their beach-side rambles.

(http://www.keller-theatre.de/download/season-program2014-15.pdf)

Fee: € 7 for students, € 10 without the student ID card

Performance venue: Kleine Bühne Giessen, Bleichstr. 28