This Beautiful Future

by Rita Kalnejais

Overview

Elodie is 17. She’s French. She washes her legs before going to church. She believes in God.

Otto is 15. He’s a German soldier. Bulletproof skin. Eyes that could pierce tanks. He was part of a firing squad today.

It’s 1944. Outside, the world around them is exploding. Inside, the room shakes.

Elodie and Otto’s naked bodies touch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786822093
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/25/2017
Series:	Oberon Modern Plays
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Rita Kalnejais has worked extensively as an actor at Belvoir, Griffin, Malthouse and Sydney Theatre Companies. Rita's first play, BC, was nominated for three Greenroom Awards including Best New Australian Play. Rita was a resident playwright at Sydney Theatre Company in 2011/12 and her screenplay Cottontop won her a scholarship at Sydney Film School in 2008. Rita's Soho Six commission First Love Is The Revolution premiered at Soho Theatre in 2015.

Editorial Reviews

'A teenage Nazi soldier and a French girl secretly meet on the eve of the American army's triumphant arrival, spending one last night together before their worlds are turned upside down... Rita Kalnejais' kaleidoscopic new play This Beautiful Future mines this compellingly weighted scenario for all it's worth... One of Kalnejais' play's most powerful tools is its refusal to be pinned down, its insistence that nothing is straightforward... An extraordinary work.' The Stage ★★★★★

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