“I don’t mind being the symbol of your decadence. That doesn’t mean, that you own me.”
Free Theatre presents The Cat Eleonore, the first English language translation and production of the award winning play by Caren Jess.
 
Eleonore is a 40 year old real estate agent who one day realises that she is actually a cat. Financially independent and single, nothing stands in the way of her transformation. She has a cat-fur sewn for her and gradually cuts herself off from human social contacts. In conversations with Dr. Wildbruch, a therapist who is fascinated by her case, it becomes clear that Eleonore’s thinking and feeling also increasingly resembles that of a cat. 
 
At the same time Eleonore is caught in the stark predicament of actually living as a cat. In the end, she loses her ability to speak and her life is confined to hunting mice in the garden and sleeping. 
 
Playwright Caren Jess won the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis and the Mülheimer Theatertage Audience Award for the play in 2023.
 
Text by Caren Jess
Translated and Directed by Peter Falkenberg
Performed and Produced by Marian McCurdy
Set, Lighting and Film by Stuart Lloyd-Harris

Performances:            
 
Wednesday 7th May 7.30pm
Thursday 8th May 7.30pm
Friday 9th May 7.30pm
Saturday 10th May 7.30pm
Eleonore’s Bar is open from 7.00pm prior to the performance for ticket holders only.
 
Location: Free Theatre @ Climate Action Campus
Tickets: $20/$30 
Bookings Essential: https://events.humanitix.com/the-cat-eleonore
 
For media enquiries and interview requests contact Marian McCurdy [email protected] / 021 025 61384

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