Lorena Handschin Brings Mary MacLane's «Ich erwarte die Ankunft des Teufels» to Zurich's Schauspielhaus

At the Schauspielhaus Zürich, director Lorena Handschin has adapted «Ich erwarte die Ankunft des Teufels», the literary debut of American writer Mary MacLane, into a stage work. The production is described as a touching and amusing piece centered on youthful vitality and impatience. The source frames the material with the observation that a brilliant mind and a body full of poetry can still leave much to go wrong in life. The staging is presented under the title «Die Mausefalle», with the accompanying line that when the past comes calling for debts, a corpse suddenly lies in the hall. Handschin, a Swiss theater maker, thus translates MacLane's early writing into a contemporary stage idiom at one of the German-speaking world's leading playhouses.