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Some Quotes about George F Walker's plays
"Since obviously many dramaturges read the same plays,
the cycle "Suburban Motel 1-6" will be reviewed in
many newspapers all over Germany during the upcoming season.
The plays are written by the Canadian author George F. Walker,
born 1947, who has more experience with experienced losers and
their stories than his young playwright colleagues. Whores,
pimps, hunters, hunted, arsonists, crooks, guys who get eaten
by bears and their widows who seek wealth in porn business,
mafiosi, cops and their lawyer-lovers: characters sprung from
filmic episodes who, in six one-act plays, whirl through a stained
motel room. After the German first productions at the Berliner
Schaubuehne the plays will be shown in Duesseldorf, Mainz, Darmstadt,
Bremen, Magdeburg, Frankfurt/Main and theatres in other cities.
Checking into the "Motel Disaster" is one of the hottest
tickets for the upcoming season."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 19.8.2003
"Walkers "Suburban Motel" (originally produced
in 1998 and translated into German by Frank Heibert) is a
transit space of the lower class. A single room is the location
for six plays that reveal stories that entwine and entangle
various characters. Walker shows a parade of so-called underprivileged
and out-casts. And even though he directs them, with a certain
air of surrealism, through sometimes absurd terrain, he aims
for something very sincere. He wants to let them speak out,
let them talk true about motherly love and rules of social
behaviour, about longings for family life and drugs like TV,
alcohol and coke. Walker wants to confront those out-casts
with the middle-class audience and therefore Walkers plays
do exactly what the Schaubuehne under Thomas Ostermeier's
artistic direction stands for - only they do it probably a
little bit funnier."
Frankfurter Rundschau, 25.8.2003
"In his six plays Walker locks his characters into one
motel room. All they do, in order to prevent disaster leads
to more disaster. About twenty of those specialists in creating
catastrophe take a bumpy ride to hell. Repeatedly the characters
ask for a break, for a moment of peace and quiet, which would
be more than necessary in order to consider the catastrophic
situation that they are in. Unfortunately, even those moments
of contemplation lead up to more disaster."
Berliner Zeitung, 25.8.2003
"...Walkers plays are the sarcastic successors of social
dramas by Tennesse Williams and Arthur Miller."
Kieler Neueste Nachrichten, 26.8.2003
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