Play by Christina Kettering
An aging society, a shortage of care staff, staff shortages in the healthcare sector, the burden on family caregivers – we hear and read about it almost daily. Women are particularly affected, as they perform the majority of care work anyway and are also still confronted with the traditional role models of the caring wife, mother, and daughter.
In Christina Kettering's play Black Swans (Schwarze Schwäne), two sisters have to deal with their mother's need for care. The older one, living alone and more rational in her reasoning, wants to put their mother in a home, which the younger one, married and a mother of two daughters herself, vehemently rejects. When the younger sister eventually takes on the care of her mother herself, she quickly reaches her limits. The solution is supposed to be Rosie, a new, hyper-modern care robot. At first, everything seems perfect: Rosie has everything under control. The daughters can finally relax. Along the way, Rosie even runs the household and learns new things daily through artificial intelligence. Rosie not only performs the necessary tasks perfectly, she also offers comfort and closeness. But over time, Rosie seems to take more and more control of the house. Or is the machine just bringing to light what is going on inside the daughters? The situation is not as clear-cut as it seems, but the escalation can no longer be stopped…
Christina Kettering received the 1st prize in the Science & Theatre playwriting competition in 2019 for Black Swans, awarded by the Theater Heilbronn, where the world premiere also took place.
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