The Virgin Suicides: dying in the age of suicide.
Photo: Judith Buss
A Production of the Munich Kammerspiele winner of XIV Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, 2017
Inspired by the 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides and the 1999 film adaptation by Sofia Coppola, Susanne Kennedy’s production looks at the difficult issue of teenage suicide that has become a curse of today’s society. An exploration of the impossible journey through a near-death experience, the production is structured after the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It follows the death voyage of the now deceased 13 year old girl, Cecilia, from the highly religious Lisbon family in the US. …