The ¡°AnglistenTheater¡± at the ÐÂÍò²©ÌåÓýÏÂÔØ_Íò²©ÌåÓýapp¡¾Í¶×¢¹ÙÍø¡¿ of Augsburg will perform two plays ¨C ¡°Escaped Alone¡± and ¡°Here We Go¡± ¨C from the British playwright Caryl Churchill for its winter production. Both plays will be performed in English on the 7th, 8th, 12th and 14th of December at 8 pm in theatre II (Building C ¨C Gro?es H?rsaalzentrum). Tickets cost €10 or €5 (concession) and can be purchased from Tuesday the 28th of November at ¡°Taschenbuchladen Kr¨¹ger¡± (near K?nigsplatz).

Four women, Lena, Vi, Sally, and Mrs J(arrett), meet for tea in Sally¡¯s garden. They talk mostly about everyday things ¨C family, shopping, TV series, jokes, birds ¨C but then also about catastrophes, some of which are from their personal lives in which they were the main protagonists, and others from dystopian universes full of haunting, oppressive imagery conjured up by Mrs J in seven monologues. The title of the play ¡°Escaped Alone¡± alludes to the Biblical Job, who with the words ¡°I only am escaped alone to tell thee¡± proclaimed by four messengers, is told of the terrible blows of fate that will cost him all his possessions and the lives of his entire family.

Personal catastrophe in the form of death also stands at the centre of ¡°Here We Go.¡± In the first scene, members of a funeral service commemorate the deceased. In the second scene ¡°After,¡± the recently deceased tries to find their way into the afterlife. The third ¨C silent ¨C scene ¡°Getting There,¡± portrays a very elderly and ill person, who is repeatedly helped to dress, undress, and move around.